Quotes by Libba Bray

About Libba Bray:

Libba Bray is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners.
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Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language.

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I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

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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.

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They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

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Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

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I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

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The wind has shifted to the East. A storm isn't far off. I can smell the moisture in the air, a fetid, living thing. Isolated drops fall, licking at my hands, my face, my dress. The quests squawk in surprise, turn their palms up to the sky as if ques...

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May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

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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.

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I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

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Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, ‘Are you on the rag of something?’ And it’s like I want to say, ‘No. I’m just pissed of...

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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

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Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

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The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.

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Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your powe...

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We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

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What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?

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I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

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You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.

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So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.

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Author Bio

  • NameLibba Bray
  • DescriptionAmerican teen writer
  • BornMarch 11, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist