Libba Bray Quotes

I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.

This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.

Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more.

She's no beauty, mate

The world is a lie...not you and me.

If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

Helloooo." Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. "I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.

Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.

You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.

Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

I hate this place,” Tiara whimpered. “It’s super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese’s where the games all want to kill you and you never get your pizza.

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.

It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.

She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.

Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it

What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.

They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

Truth casts a spell of its own.

The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.

But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.