Libba Bray quotes - page 11

...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff. (Libba Bray)
You've been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it's about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what's real. -Going Bovine. View quote
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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. View quote
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How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter. View quote
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The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either. View quote
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They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all. View quote
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I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. View quote
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In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won't even need a pencil. View quote
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The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish. View quote
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Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High. View quote
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Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else. (Libba Bray)
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. View quote
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Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic. View quote
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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. View quote
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Marisol does a silly dance with Balder and the screw, one in each hand, so that nobody gets the idea that she takes tins - or anything else, for that matter - seriously. And just like that, something in the cosmos shifts. A butterfly flaps its wings in South America. Snow falls in Chicago. You give an idiot a stupid magic screw and it turns out to be a necessary part after all. View quote
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