It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants to be themselves. That's why there's TV. So you know what to want and who to be.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or… — 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
They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen? — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in… — 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
She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.” “There… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I… — 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
In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.… — 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
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
I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I hate this place,” Tiara whimpered. “It’s super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese’s where the games all want to kill… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What took you so long?” Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You're special. I'm special. The whole world's special, so don't you forget it. The universe wants us All to be happy, Full… — 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
