Libba Bray Quotes

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• Evie replied with an eye-roll. “Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I’m gone?” “The only thing I’m trying to steal…
• The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and…
• I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.
• If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan…
• Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.
• I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony.
• With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would…
• Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as…
• I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s…
• No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but…
• There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages…
• I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m…
• She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.
• You have a steady fella?” Sam asked after a bit. “No fella can hold me for long.” Sam gave her a sideways glance. “That a…
• She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really…
• There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words…
• For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who…
• People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting…
• In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences…
• He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just…

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