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Libba Bray Quotes | Quotes said by Libba Bray

  • Libba Bray Quote #1

    . . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

  • Libba Bray Quote #2

    ...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.

  • Libba Bray Quote #3

    ...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something.

    I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave? Tiara said. Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around.

    What happened? Miss Ohio asked.

    I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

  • Libba Bray Quote #4

    ...There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no.

  • Libba Bray Quote #5

    A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

  • Libba Bray Quote #6

    A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well.

    God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

  • Libba Bray Quote #7

    Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.”
    “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

  • Libba Bray Quote #8

    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 power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.

  • Libba Bray Quote #9

    Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.

  • Libba Bray Quote #10

    And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss.

  • Libba Bray Quote #11

    And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.

  • Libba Bray Quote #12

    And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.

  • Libba Bray Quote #13

    As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.
    As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure, Petra said.

  • Libba Bray Quote #14

    As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

  • Libba Bray Quote #15

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

  • Libba Bray Quote #16

    Because the pure girls get rescued.
    Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She was well and truly pissed off. Why do girls have to be all pure and innocent and good? Why don't guys have to be?

  • Libba Bray Quote #17

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

  • Libba Bray Quote #18

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

  • Libba Bray Quote #19

    But Gemma, you could change the world.
    That should take far more than my power, I say.
    True. But change needn't happen all at once. It can be small gestures.
    Moments. Do you understand? He's looking at me differently now, though I cannot say how. I only know I need to look away...
    We pass by the pools, where the mud larks sift. And for only a few seconds, I let the magic loose again.
    Oi! By all the saints! a boy cries from the river.
    Gone off the dock? an old woman calls. The mud larks break into cackles.
    'S not a rock! he shouts. He races out of the fog, cradling something in his palm. Curiosity gets the better of the others. They crowd about trying to see. In his palm is a smattering of rubies. We're rich mates! It's a hot bath and a full belly for every one of us!
    Kartik eyes me suspiciously. That was a strange stroke of good fortune.
    Yes it was.
    I don't suppose that was your doing.
    I'm not sure I don't know what you mean, I say.
    And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

  • Libba Bray Quote #20

    But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

  • Libba Bray Quote #21

    But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

  • Libba Bray Quote #22

    But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

  • Libba Bray Quote #23

    Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

  • Libba Bray Quote #24

    Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

  • Libba Bray Quote #25

    Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?

    What's the point of that, Miss? the waiter said.

    Tomorrow morning, Mabel said.

  • Libba Bray Quote #26

    Dans chaque fin, il y a un début.

  • Libba Bray Quote #27

    Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

  • Libba Bray Quote #28

    Every city is a ghost.
    New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park.

  • Libba Bray Quote #29

    Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

  • Libba Bray Quote #30

    Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules.
    You can't really believe that!
    I do believe it. That man's misfortune is that he cannot accept his caste, his fate.
    I know that the Indians wear their caste as a mark upon their foreheads for all to see. I know that in England, we have our own unacknowledged caste system. A laborer will never hold a seat in Parliament. Neither will a woman. I don't think I've ever questioned such things until this moment.
    But what about will and desire? What if someone wants to change things.
    Kartik keeps his eyes on the room You cannot change your caste. You cannot go against fate.
    That means there is no hope of a better life. It is a trap.
    That is how you see it, he says softly.
    What do you mean?
    It can be a relief to follow the path that has been laid oud for you, to know your course and play your part in it.
    But how can you be sure that you are following the right course? What if there is no such thing as destiny, only choice?
    Then I do not choose to live without destiny, he says with a slight smile.

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