Libba Bray Quotes

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• People aren't always what you want them to be
• I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.
• Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
• And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate…
• Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.
• I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the…
• It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
• 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 her tea but…
• The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.
• I refuse to let the past find me here.
• I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be…
• No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?
• When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she…
• How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain…
• He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve…
• To each his own magic.
• I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to…
• How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go,…
• The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.
• Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

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