Top 500 Libba Bray Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “See, that’s your generation all over-you muck up everything and then expect us to fix your messes.”

— Libba Bray

452. “He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He’s just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.”

— Libba Bray

453. “Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don’t know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I’m beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It’s not that they want to protect us; it’s that they fear us.”

— Libba Bray

454. “Theta sat next to Memphis and watched Mr. and Mrs. Chan laughing about some private joke. They were a mixed couple, and they were happy. No one seemed to be bothering them. But they were also here in the few blocks of Chinatown. What happened when they crossed Canal Street into the rest of the city? What happened when they went out into the rest of the country?”

— Libba Bray

455. “They’d never discussed how to find one’s place in the world, never talked of fathers and sons, or what makes someone a man. No. He and Will spoke in newspaper articles about ghosts. They conversed through the careful curation of supernatural knickknacks. And Jericho couldn’t help but feel cheated at how little he’d gotten when he’d needed so much more.”

— Libba Bray

456. “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

457. “Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn’t do that with love. It had to be given. Shared.”

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458. “It isn’t that we do what we want. It’s that we’re allowed to want at all.”

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459. “I’ve never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.”

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460. “Theta’s hand slid just slightly toward Memphis’s. He inched his forward, too, just grazing the tips of her fingers with his.”

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461. “Whoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved an entire world.”

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462. “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

463. “As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them – mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.”

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464. “It’s funny. I used to feel that I wouldn’t care if I died. I just kept throwing myself at life, hoping I’d hit a bull’s-eye eventually. I thought death would be a relief from all that feeling. A relief not to have all that pain. Not to care so much,′ Evie said.”

— Libba Bray

465. “However, it has come to our attention that there is a small safety “glitch” with the Git R Done 447, which might cause it to fire too soon or even randomly, accidentally killing someone you love. Awkward, we know.”

— Libba Bray

466. “Looking for truth makes a man hafta look at himself along the way.”

— Libba Bray

467. “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.”

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468. “There’s a Douglas Fairbanks picture at the Strand. A swashbuckler. You love those.” Evie closed one eye. “You’re telling me not to lose hope because there are pirate pictures?” “I’m trying here, Baby Vamp. When you’re facing evil, a good pirate picture doesn’t hurt.”

— Libba Bray

469. “I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.”

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470. “Rest. Then speak of what you know. Show them what you have seen. Witness until their comfort yields to questions. Till their eyes cry with truth. Till their ears would hear the voices of tomorrow. Till their hearts, heavy with knowledge, beat in understanding.”

— Libba Bray

471. “If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.”

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472. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.”

— Libba Bray

473. “But she wasn’t sure she wanted the responsibility of loving anyone right now. The truth was, she was afraid that when she fell hard for a boy, she’d lose herself along the way. She’d seen it happen to lots of girls. They’d go from drinking gin, driving fast card and boldly shimmering in speakeasys, to these passive creatures, who couldn’t make a move without asking their beaus if it would be okay. Evie had no intention of fading behind any man.”

— Libba Bray

474. “You know who’s getting hurt? Workers. Poor people. Immigrants. Every day. It’s a rigged game, Evie. The people at the top say they believe in the people at the bottom until those people try to climb up. And then the people at the top step on the hands of the climbing people they claim to believe in and cast them down the ladder.”

— Libba Bray

475. “All children are demons,” Evie said, breathing heavily. “This is precisely why I always refuse to babysit.”

— Libba Bray

476. “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.”

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477. “Little Warrior: You can do this. I believe you can.”

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478. “Small acts of resistance matter!”

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479. “I saw things in that war that a man shouldn’t ever have see. Things that make you forget we’re human and not just a bunch of beasts crawling out of the sludge somewhere. And the damnedest part of it all is, I couldn’t for the life of me remember what we were fighting for in the first place.”

— Libba Bray

480. “You don’t have to disprove someone’s claim if you can discredit the person saying it.”

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481. “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

482. “It was Mabel Evie called when she got back. Mabel who came to her side, even though it was very early in the morning.”

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483. “Trust me: If God exists, he’ll know I’m faking it.”

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484. “Can I tell you a secret? I don’t like ghosts very much. They are terrible people.”

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485. “He’d gone goofy for her, and if she broke his heart, that would be the end of the best friendship he’d ever had. He couldn’t risk that.”

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486. “It reminds us that even in the midst of chaos and terror, there is the capacity for change.”

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487. “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.”

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488. “Besides, I’m in the theater, darlin’. I meet an awful lot of strange people. It’s an occupational hazard.”

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489. “I’ve spent the last two hours worried that you were bleeding to death in a ditch,” Evie continued. “Now that I know you’re okay, I just want you to be bleeding to death in a ditch.”

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490. “Mabel’s parents had said that it was bigotry dressed up to look like science.”

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491. “Bloody clothing is often a clue that something has gone awry.”

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492. “Aww, Sheba. So you’re working for Evie. Honestly, who isn’t working for himself in this meshuga world? Some people just hide it better than others.”

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493. “Every leader has blood on her hands.”

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494. “It had been a thudding bore of a day; rain had kept Evie inside at the museum, where she amused herself by rearranging the books on one shelf according to a taxonomy only she understood.”

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495. “And falling for Sam Lloyd was the don’t-you-dare cherry on top of a worst-idea sundae.”

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496. “If you did the wrong things for the right reasons, did that make the wrong things right? Or did that just mean you had turned your back on finding a more right way? And once you justified violence, did that make it easier the next time and the next, until you’d become the villain of your own story?”

— Libba Bray

497. “People who were helpful and indispensable were loved. Weren’t they?”

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498. “Maybe he would kill one of them for fun. Maybe not. Mood was everything.”

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499. “Isaiah thought of Memphis in love with Theta and Theta in love with Memphis, and he understood for the first time just how dangerous their love was for them. Even though they were supposed to be free, they weren’t.”

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500. “He imagined that one day he’d hear that his parents were gone and feel only a vague sense of loss. How could you mourn something you’d never really had?”

— Libba Bray