Libba Bray Quotes

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• The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human…
• I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you…
• I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.
• Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell
• I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in…
• Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.
• Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
• "Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That…
• Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye'…
• So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot…
• We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or…
• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our…
• You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you…
• I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could…
• That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all,…
• Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
• And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
• You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
• There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I…
• People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

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