Girl Quotes by Libba Bray

She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.

— Libba Bray

“Every girl was once a prinsess”

— Libba Bray

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

— Libba Bray

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

— Libba Bray

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

Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.

— Libba Bray

She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

— Libba Bray

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my…

— Libba Bray

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can…

— Libba Bray

Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's…

— Libba Bray

Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my…

— Libba Bray

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

On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame.…

— Libba Bray

Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me?…

— Libba Bray

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

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

She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of…

— Libba Bray

Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have…

— Libba Bray

Wanna rock you, girl, with a butterfly tunic. / No, I'm not gay, I'm just your emo enuch. / Gonna smile real…

— Libba Bray

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

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

On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls…

— Libba Bray

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

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

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

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

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

“There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots.…

— Libba Bray

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

Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a…

— Libba Bray

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He…

— Libba Bray

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to…

— Libba Bray

She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You…

— Libba Bray

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

Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down…

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

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

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no…

— Libba Bray