« All Own Quotes · Libba Bray's Page
Own Quotes by Libba Bray
- Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell
- 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…
- No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their…
- 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 to…
- What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own…
- But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a…
- What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?…
- There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they contribute to the…
- You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after…
- The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction…
- The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small…
- 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…
- To each his own magic.
- Truth casts a spell of its own.
- You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do…
- Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it…
- - So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small…
- Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to control my life…
- This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him," Miss Ohio said…
- What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t know,” her daddy…
- In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it…
- I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov