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“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 try.” (A Great and Terrible Beauty Quotes)
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Because you don’t notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“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 things from me.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I’ll always have to wonder whether I’m truly wanted or whether I’ve just been settled for.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don’t bother to try to see.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“In every end, there is also a beginning.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“It isn’t that we do what we want. It’s that we’re allowed to want at all.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“It’s possible to pretend I’m someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I’ve heard it said that God is in the details. It’s the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.” (A Great and Terrible Beauty Quotes)
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it’s nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen’s health. Your mind is not a cage. It’s a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“One could argue that it’s romantic to die for love. Of course, then you’re dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“The beast attempts a beautiful look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“The face staring back at me isn’t beautiful but she isn’t something that would scare the horses, either.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“There’s a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“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 who isn’t really here.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Things aren’t good or bad in and of themselves. It’s what we do with them that make them so.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“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 dies a little.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Women who have power are always feared.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Your mind is not a cage. It’s a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
