Top 500 Libba Bray Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”

— Libba Bray

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2. “Write like it matters, and it will.”

— Libba Bray

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3. “Judge not, lest ye be judged.”

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4. “In every end, there is also a beginning.”

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5. “You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really – taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet...”

— Libba Bray

6. “If you tell them what they want to hear, they don’t bother to try to see.”

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7. “My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?”

— Libba Bray

8. “Everyone’s dying. A little, every day. Make it count.”

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9. “There is no greater power on this earth than story.”

— Libba Bray

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10. “People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”

— Libba Bray

11. “Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”

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12. “But we can’t go back. We can only go forward.”

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13. “To live is to love, to love is to live.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “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

16. “But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.”

— Libba Bray

17. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.”

— Libba Bray

18. “There are no wrong decisions – only different ones.”

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19. “Because ‘You’re perfect just the way you are,’ is what your guidance counselor says. And she’s an alcoholic.”

— Libba Bray

20. “To each his own magic.”

— Libba Bray

21. “I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”

— Libba Bray

22. “I’m a librarian, not an oracle.”

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23. “People always fear what they don’t understand, Evangeline. History proves that.”

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24. “I change the world, the world changes me.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “Travel opens your mind as few other things do.”

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27. “We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.”

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28. “There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.”

— Libba Bray

29. “We create the illusions we need to go on.”

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30. “Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.”

— Libba Bray

31. “She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s fresh cup of coffee.”

— Libba Bray

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32. “Will you punish me forever?”

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33. “Wow, you’re awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!”

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34. “Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?”

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35. “Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.”

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36. “You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”

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37. “Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.”

— Libba Bray

40. “I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.”

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41. “I’m just saying it’s not all sand castles and ninjas.”

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42. “I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I’ve got to think.”

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43. “There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.”

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44. “Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”

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45. “In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.”

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46. “But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.”

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47. “What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.”

— Libba Bray

48. “What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.”

— Libba Bray

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49. “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

50. “People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.”

— Libba Bray