"So much of the literature we had to……" — Libba Bray
"So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines."
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440 Quotes by Libba Bray
Libba Bray has 440 quotes on this site.
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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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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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You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on…
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
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