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“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.” (The Diviners Quotes)
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“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
“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
“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
“I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity,” Sam said.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“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’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 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
“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.” (The Diviners Quotes)
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“People always fear what they don’t understand, Evangeline. History proves that.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“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
“She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.”
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 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
“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 wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.” (The Diviners Quotes)
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another…”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“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
“When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.”
Libba Bray
The Diviners
“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
