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“And then there was Jeremiah. When I looked at Jeremiah, I saw past, present, and future. He didn’t just know the girl I used to be. He knew the right-now me, and he loved me anyway.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.
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― Libba Bray

“Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.”
― Libba Bray

“True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know.”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“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.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.”
― Libba Bray, 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?”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty”
― Libba Bray

“You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“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.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!”
― Libba Bray

“I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty”
― Libba Bray