Libba Bray Quotes

Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were...

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I gu...

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

I change the world, the world changes me.

Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.

Write like it matters, and it will.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish,...

I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and ...

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one spe...

You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar He...

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion...

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

To those who will see, the world waits.

I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying th...

I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twi...

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, al...

You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world...

What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO...

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you'...

There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would li...

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or ful...

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they c...

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's f...

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Mr. Babcock pats my shoulder. He smiles, and the caterpillar mustache — the envy of state troopers e...

We are the dead. We are the keepers of the stories. We hold the history of blood and promises. We ar...

The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...

Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’...

Maybe there’s a heaven, like they say, a place where everything we’ve ever done is noted and recorde...

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's le...

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifi...

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take t...

No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, e...

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I und...

There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, p...

It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clea...

Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top r...

Forgiveness. The frail beauty of the world takes root in me as I make my way back through the woods,...

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you...

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every...

Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's s...

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, ...

We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid,...

May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about ot...

I'm Sorry,' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an ang...

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

I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

The wind has shifted to the East. A storm isn't far off. I can smell the moisture in the air, a feti...

I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance ...

What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It’s such a b...

What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly.Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl and o...

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light yo...

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.Because I want t...

Kartik feels like a country I want to travel—vast, dangerous, and unknown.

Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held hi...

It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon...

Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all t...

New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period.Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes andi...

I've been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on the island....Lord of the Flies what ...

Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that a...

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

What did I do to make Mommy leave?”“You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.”“Then why?” she’d...

God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash.Jennifer knew...

There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those ru...

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

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

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

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

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

I’m not that kind of Indian,” Shanti said, her practiced smile never leaving her face, though it fal...

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

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

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.

Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take ...

Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a sw...

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

...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something.""I don't want to do that! What ...

Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shan...

Miss New Mexico stared, dumbfounded. "Stand out? Stand out? I have a freaking tray stuck in my foreh...

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

I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the ...

What about you and me, Adina?” Duff said, sidling up to her by the railing. “I know I screwed up. Bu...

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-s...

Because the pure girls get rescued." Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She ...

It had the word bitches in it, which is perfectly fine to use if you're a rapper or a director makin...

You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don...

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a carto...

She dances a little jig. "This would make one hell of a TV show, huh?" "Yeah. But no one would belie...

Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries ...

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be eve...

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on you...

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my ...