Top 500 Libba Bray Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?”

— Libba Bray

52. “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

53. “We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?”

— Libba Bray

54. “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

55. “The hand you hold the longest is your own.”

— Libba Bray

56. “Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells ’em off for a coupla stones.”

— Libba Bray

57. “There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he’s right.”

— Libba Bray

58. “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

59. “I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.”

— Libba Bray

60. “There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”

— Libba Bray

61. “This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.”

— Libba Bray

62. “You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”

— Libba Bray

63. “You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real. -Going Bovine.”

— Libba Bray

64. “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 suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.”

— Libba Bray

65. “To those who will see, the world waits.”

— Libba Bray

66. “The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.”

— Libba Bray

67. “I know I’ve done the right thing but I couldn’t feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.”

— Libba Bray

68. “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

69. “I’m an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.”

— Libba Bray

70. “Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren’t we all just a little crazy?”

— Libba Bray

71. “We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there’s an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”

— Libba Bray

72. “The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.”

— Libba Bray

73. “The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.”

— Libba Bray

74. “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

75. “There’s a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.”

— Libba Bray

76. “Before the Devil breaks you, first he will make you love him. Beware, little sister. Beware the King of Crows!”

— Libba Bray

77. “I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.”

— Libba Bray

78. “So, now I’ve been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.”

— Libba Bray

79. “I refuse to let the past find me here.”

— Libba Bray

80. “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

81. “Let’s be brave girls, shall we?”

— Libba Bray

82. “I’m going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.”

— Libba Bray

83. “Today is a hard day.” Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope.”

— Libba Bray

84. “Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.”

— Libba Bray

85. “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

86. “What I can’t figure out is why you gotta make yourself crackers trying to be somebody you can’t ever be instead of just letting yourself be the one and only Evie O’Neill.”

— Libba Bray

87. “He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.”

— Libba Bray

88. “How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.”

— Libba Bray

89. “The key holds the truth.”

— Libba Bray

90. “The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.”

— Libba Bray

91. “No one can steal our dream.”

— Libba Bray

92. “Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.”

— Libba Bray

93. “Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don’t want to look like a troll, do you?”

— Libba Bray

94. “The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I’m sixteen now, so you can imagine that’s left me with quite a few days of major suckage.”

— Libba Bray

95. “When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”

— Libba Bray

96. “It’s knowing I’ll never have what she has – a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I’ll always have to wonder whether I’m truly wanted or whether I’ve just been settled for.”

— Libba Bray

97. “Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?”

— Libba Bray

98. “I’m sorry, Gemma. But we can’t live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.”

— Libba Bray

99. “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

100. “I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don’t tailgate: body in trunk.”

— Libba Bray