Libba Bray Quotes

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• Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.
• Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!"…
• The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs,…
• Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you,…
• We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary…
• A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee,…
• The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in…
• You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?” Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up…
• Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?” “You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her.…
• Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
• He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors…
• What took you so long?” Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of books, which they…
• Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I…
• Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe…
• She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
• She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow,…
• I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.
• There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
• A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She…
• You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on…

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