On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals."… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
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… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Taylor clapped three times for attention. "Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, Miss… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? “Bank’s… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?” Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“The King of Crows raked his fingers across the dark until it bled. He licked the blood from his fingers with a forked tongue.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Spare a copper for our cause?" the girl with the coin cup asks, her voice weary. "I can spare more than that," I say.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
