Top 500 Libba Bray Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “What kind of person doesn’t let you have gummi bears?”

— Libba Bray

302. “How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?”

— Libba Bray

303. “They wish, too, that they could warn them about the gray man in the stovepipe hat, about the King of Crows. For not all ghosts remember, and the citizens have need of warning.”

— Libba Bray

304. “It was funny how their odd little family of friends had changed him. Made him feel safe. Theta, Memphis, Henry, Jericho, Mabel, Ling, Isaiah, and especially Evie. They’d been there for him. Opened the parts of him he was afraid would be closed off forever. Why had he wasted so much time bottling up his feelings? What did that ever get anybody but dumb fights? He had friends. He had a home in them. And Evie was home, too.”

— Libba Bray

305. “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

306. “You couldn’t be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.”

— Libba Bray

307. “But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.”

— Libba Bray

308. “She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.”

— Libba Bray

309. “When did you become a cynic?” Sam asked. Evie smiled. “When I found out I was a little girl.”

— Libba Bray

310. “It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.”

— Libba Bray

311. “My head kinda hurts,” Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes. “What is it?” Miss New Mexico checked to make sure her bra straps weren’t showing. “N-nothing.” Miss Ohio managed an awkward smile.”

— Libba Bray

312. “Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petit fours melting under the July sun.”

— Libba Bray

313. “When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.”

— Libba Bray

314. “It was funny how one afternoon with a best friend could set a girl right.”

— Libba Bray

315. “There is no greater power on this earth than story. People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense – words do.”

— Libba Bray

316. “The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die.” He winks. “But not without one hell of a fight.”

— Libba Bray

317. “The citizens rise and wash, shave and brush. They don stockings and dresses, pants, shirts, and suspenders. They button up their need. Affix their aspirations. Tuck histories neatly inside drawers, creating themselves as they go, a rhapsody of reinvention.”

— Libba Bray

318. “Haven’t you been hurt?” Miss Lillian asked. Theta thought of Roy’s fists. Mrs. Bowers’s cold cruelty. Even the first wound of abandonment. “Yes.” “And here you still are. No. The question is this: Haven’t you been hurt enough?”

— Libba Bray

319. “I have met the devil, and her name is Cecily Temple.”

— Libba Bray

320. “Choices. That’s what made a man. Wasn’t it?”

— Libba Bray

321. “There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.”

— Libba Bray

322. “Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world?”

— Libba Bray

323. “What place lay beyond the reach of evil?”

— Libba Bray

324. “Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.”

— Libba Bray

325. “I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it’s strictly sherry.”

— Libba Bray

326. “Theta rolled over, facing Evie, their noses nearly touching. “Evil?” “Yes?” “I love you. Now, shut up and go to sleep.”

— Libba Bray

327. “When you looked up to the sky and cried “Why?” sometimes the sky shrugged. Yet other times it answered with the warm assurance of linked hands. “Sorry,” it whispered on the wind. “Sorry for all the pain loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too.”

— Libba Bray

328. “I told myself it was the snow – she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.”

— Libba Bray

329. “Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.”

— Libba Bray

330. “Just once, she’d like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.”

— Libba Bray

331. “It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body.”

— Libba Bray

332. “Felicity laughs and takes on the tone of a fashionable lady. “Darling, the Bryn-Joneses have just done the most marvelous thing in their parlor with human blood. We simply must have ours done straightaway!”

— Libba Bray

333. “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

334. “Ain’t that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain’t touched the big mysteries – where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.”

— Libba Bray

335. “Why was there so much silence between men?”

— Libba Bray

336. “Grinning, he grabbed his fisherman’s cap and coat. “I love you,” he whispered quietly. “Ikh hob dikh lib.” He kissed Evie’s head. She rustled in her sleep, turning away. “Fine. I see how it is. I just wasted my best Yiddish on you,” Sam joked to himself.”

— Libba Bray

337. “All things are possible.”

— Libba Bray

338. “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

339. “And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.”

— Libba Bray

340. “Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we’re not even high.”

— Libba Bray

341. “Whatever is without question is most vulnerable.”

— Libba Bray

342. “There’s no such thing as hideously ordinary. If something is hideous, it’s automatically extraordinary. In a hideous way.”

— Libba Bray

343. “Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala,” I say with an affected bow.”

— Libba Bray

344. “She’s no beauty, mate.”

— Libba Bray

345. “She would live every day fully. She was not the same girl she’d been nearly a year ago. She would never see things so blithely again. Even now, as Evie watched the parade and the people alight with pride and joy, she knew how easily that same crowd could become angry. The things that divided them. The things that brought them together, too. They couldn’t afford to become complacent.”

— Libba Bray

346. “Go on, darling,” she said, batting her lashes. “Tell them the rest.” “Riiiight,” Sam said, suppressing a smirk.”

— Libba Bray

347. “But this time she’d done everything right and they were leaving her anyway. You couldn’t be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.”

— Libba Bray

348. “The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.”

— Libba Bray

349. “Memphis – it’s just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It’s what they do. It’s not following you, and it’s not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother.”

— Libba Bray

350. “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