"Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who……" — Libba Bray
"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!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti."
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440 Quotes by Libba Bray
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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams…
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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details,…
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I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.
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Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever…
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I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does…
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Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow…
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Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
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"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you…
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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life;…
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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic…
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We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are…
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In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice.…
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It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm…
— Elayne Boosler
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Create your legacy, and pass the baton.
— Billie Jean King
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I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
— Robert Breault
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A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a…
— Mo Rocca
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Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring…
— Unknown Author
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God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.
— Unknown Author
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Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up…
— Xi Jinping
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Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a…
— Bear Bryant
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Neither team has really taken the baton by the scruff of the neck and put their stamp on it
— Nigel Worthington
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some…
— Ornette Coleman
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PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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