Martha Elizabeth “Libba” Bray
Martha Elizabeth “Libba” Bray is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners. (Libba Bray Quotes)
“And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“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.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“And now if you’ll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“Because you can’t keep up the illusion forever,” I say. “No one has that much magic.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“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
“Because ‘You’re perfect just the way you are,’ is what your guidance counselor says. And she’s an alcoholic.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“Before the Devil breaks you, first he will make you love him. Beware, little sister. Beware the King of Crows!”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you. So she lived in the moment, as if her life were one long party that never had to stop as long as she kept the good times going.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“But how did you fight an enemy who never fought fair? Didn’t you have to break the rules to win against the Devil?”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“But if you abandoned the idea that such a paradise awaited you, and believed that you would live this life over and over again, would you not live the life you had more thoughtfully?”
Libba Bray
The King of Crows
“But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“Could you look again, please?” the woman asked in a clipped, slightly British accent. “It was sent parcel post two weeks ago from Miss Felicity Worthington and addressed to Mrs. Rao, Mrs. Gemma Doyle Rao.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“Dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.”
Libba Bray
Vacations from Hell
“Every city is a ghost. New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“Evie was still crying and so didn’t know what Sam whispered to Theta over the top of her head. She only knew that now there were two sets of arms around her, holding her close, holding her up. She only knew that she had family after all.”
Libba Bray
The King of Crows
“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams.” (Libba Bray Quotes)
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“He loved her. Was in love with her. Had always loved her. And it seemed that she loved him, too. It was funny how the world could change on a dime like that. One minute, you were some poor chump pining after a girl you thought didn’t feel the same way about you, and the next, you were lying together, arms entwined, chest to chest, so close you could feel her heartbeat under her soft skin. You were looking into her eyes and seeing your whole future written there.”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“Here is the world before you. You have only to reach for it.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required periodic exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“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 am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“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 do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“I don’t think you should die until you’re ready. Until you’ve wrong out every last bit of living you can.”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
“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 have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“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 salute your spunk, but I question your sanity,” Sam said.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“I shan’t ever understand your willingness to lie down and die,” Felicity bars. “If you won’t at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“I suppose it’s all in how you define patriotism. Some say that’s only saying good things about your country. Others say that it’s speaking against what you feel is wrong with your country and trying to make a change.”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I’d give the librarian a secret code word and he’d give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: Doctor Who. Hey, it’s not my fault they don’t have TiVo yet.”
Libba Bray
Vacations from Hell
“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 Quotes)
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the feel of my own body. I’m not a slut or a nympho or someone who’s just asking for it. And if I talk too loud it’s just that I’m trying to be heard.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“Idealism is just an escape from reality. There is no utopia.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I’ve no use for God. ”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don’t bother to try to see.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Imagine living each day and not being able to trust your own mind. Imagine having it lie to you, trick you, tell you you’re worthless or that the world would be better off without you in it. It would be like… like always hearing an awful radio playing inside your head, one that you can’t seem to turn off.”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
“In every end, there is also a beginning.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“In this life, you have to work with people you dislike. You find compromises. But sometimes you find that a person’s beliefs are so harmful that you must speak against them. You can’t let such harmful statements stand without challenge. They have a tendency to grow into tumors.”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“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 was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“It was a machine that required constant feeding- Henry hated the machine, and he hated himself for wanting the sort of admiration it promised, as if he had no worth unless someone was there to applaud it”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“It was a thread woven through all of humankind: this need for story to explain the unexplainable, to comfort the hurting, to promise that no one was alone. Evie’s uncle Will had said there was no greater power on earth than story. And in this shared moment, Memphis knew that it was so.”
Libba Bray
The King of Crows
“It was always somebody’s turn. The Irish, the Italians, the Jews, the Negroes or Chinese or Mexicans. A great wheel of bigotry, ever turning. Who got to decide what made somebody an American? America, the ideal of it at least, was its own form of elusive magic.”
Libba Bray
The King of Crows
“It was funny how one afternoon with a best friend could set a girl right.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“It’s over, her mind whispered. There’s still hope, her heart insisted.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“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.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Just because you loved somebody with your entire soul didn’t mean they wouldn’t break your heart. And just because somebody loved you didn’t mean they’d be able to stop themselves from hurting you to get what they wanted”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“Just because you’re funny doesn’t mean you get to be cruel.” (Libba Bray Quotes)
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“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
“Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one’s is watching them so they can be who they really are”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“No. It is impossible to maintain a smile in my brother’s presence. Monks haven’t the sort of patience required.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“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
“Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“Ordinary people were capable of extraordinary bravery.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“People always fear what they don’t understand, Evangeline. History proves that.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won’t eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don’t know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for no reason at all.”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
“People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“People who were helpful and indispensable were loved. Weren’t they?”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“People will believe anything if it means they can go on living their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“People you loved could be gone in a breath. So why didn’t knowing that make it any easier to be vulnerable? To tell people that you loved them, that you were hurting, that you were afraid, or that, sometimes, at five in the morning, you were so alone in your own skin that you watched the weak light play across the ceiling, willing it toward dawn?”
Libba Bray
The King of Crows
“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.” (Libba Bray Quotes)
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“She never utters a sound even when she’s crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn’t seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
“She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. He crossed out heavy, wrote weighted instead, then decided that was downright pretentious and put heavy back in.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“Simplifying people was a way of not having to think too much about them, to make them fit into your own story. People were inconvenient, though. Behind the idea of a person you constructed to suit yourself, the people you loved had their own stories- whole worlds going on inside- and you ignored them at your peril.”
Libba Bray
The King of Crows
“Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“Stories were power. And whoever controlled the story controlled everything. A story could bring people together, or it could tear them apart. It could spread like a sickness, infecting people. It could lead them into battle or shake them into seeing what they had refused to see before.”
Libba Bray
The King of Crows
“Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“That was the trouble with letting people in—once you’d taken off the armor, it was hard to put it back on.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“The beast attempts a beautiful look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
“The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“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
“The land is old, the land is vast, he has no future, he has no past, his coat is sewn with many woes, he’ll bring the dead, the King of Crows.”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“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 into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“The night’s chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it’s all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were supposed to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.” (Libba Bray Quotes)
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices…But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another…”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“There is no greater power on this earth than story.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he’s right.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“There was such fear in the world. But love was everywhere if you looked. It was the best thing about humans. That they could stare into the abyss and still open up their hearts. A spit in the eye to fear.”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“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
“There’s no such thing as hideously ordinary. If something is hideous, it’s automatically extraordinary. In a hideous way.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“There’s no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there’s a something. In fact, there could be everything!”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It’s probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
“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
“They’re too tired for bathing, but they’re not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and the city hall to many dreams.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“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
“This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“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
“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the injustice of racism and exclusion. These realities exist side by side. It is our past and our present. The future is unwritten. This is a book about ghosts. For we live in a haunted house.”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan,” he’d said.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
“We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“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 limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?” (Libba Bray Quotes)
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“What we do not study and reflect upon, we are in danger of dismissing or forgetting. What we forget, we are often doomed to repeat. Our ghosts, it seems, are always with us, whispering that attention must be paid.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.”
Libba Bray
Rebel Angels
“When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“When people talked about “family” as something special, a place where you belonged, a dull anger nipped at Henry, a feeling that he’d been cheated of this basic comfort.”
Libba Bray
Lair of Dreams
“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
“When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“When you looked up to the sky and cried ‘Why?’ sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?” Nicole asked. “You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it’s longer than three sentences or she’s expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, ‘Sorry for the rant’ or ‘That may be dumb, but that’s what I think.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“Women who have power are always feared.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“You can never know about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your own destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
“You couldn’t be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”
Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing
“You must work always to understand your own heart so that it cannot be used against you.”
Libba Bray
Before the Devil Breaks You
“You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That’s a step too far.”
Libba Bray
Beauty Queens
“Your mind is not a cage. It’s a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
“You’ve influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one day you wanted to beat the crap out of somebody but you didn’t. You made a painting instead.”
Libba Bray
Going Bovine
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