Top 500 Libba Bray Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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357. “She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.”

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358. “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!”

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359. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?”

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360. “She’s no beauty, mate.”

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

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

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

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364. “I don’t trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset.”

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365. “Simplifying people was a way of not having to think too much about them, to make them fit into your own story. People were inconvenient, though. Behind the idea of a person you constructed to suit yourself, the people you loved had their own stories- whole worlds going on inside- and you ignored them at your peril.”

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366. “The Diviners must stand, or all shall fall.”

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367. “Sam. Don’t make me kill you on a full stomach. I might get a cramp.”

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368. “Nearby, Lady Liberty hoists her torch in the harbor, a beacon to all who come to these shores to escape persecution or famine or hopelessness. For this is the land of dreams. The.”

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369. “I’ll be counting the cats when I come over. There better be the same number each time.”

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370. “Don’t tell anybody, but sometimes, I just don’t want to sparkle.”

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371. “Can we talk about the miracle that is the Small World ride? It’s like an acid trip drag show.”

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372. “Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.”

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373. “Does my new feminism make me look fat?”

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374. “Lord, cat. Announce yourself next time. I don’t have no nine lives.”

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375. “Sometimes Felicity is as much a mystery to me as the location of the Temple. She is spiteful and childish one minute, lively and spirited in the next; a girl kind enough to bring Ann home for Christmas and small enough to think Kartik her inferior.”

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376. “This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.”

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377. “When you looked up to the sky and cried ‘Why?’ sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.”

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378. “You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.”

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379. “For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”

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380. “You must work always to understand your own heart so that it cannot be used against you.”

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381. “Nicole hated that she could never quite feel like she was just herself, just Nicole, but that she was somehow representing an entire race. That’s how they saw her, as a “they” and not a “she.”

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382. “Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.”

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383. “He loved her. Was in love with her. Had always loved her. And it seemed that she loved him, too. It was funny how the world could change on a dime like that. One minute, you were some poor chump pining after a girl you thought didn’t feel the same way about you, and the next, you were lying together, arms entwined, chest to chest, so close you could feel her heartbeat under her soft skin. You were looking into her eyes and seeing your whole future written there.”

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384. “For the last time, I’m not a witch.” Miss Lillian smiled and patted Theta’s cheek. “Keep telling yourself that, dear.”

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385. “Kartik feels like a country I want to travel – vast, dangerous, and unknown.”

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386. “It was hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.”

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387. “I mean that she was complicated. Everybody is,” Ling said quietly. “Don’t erase her like that. She deserves better.”

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388. “Because there’s nothing wrong with you... that can’t be fixed.”

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389. “But isn’t that strange and wonderful unpredictability part of humanity? Aren’t all of our differences what already make us a great nation?”

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390. “Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?” Nicole asked. “You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it’s longer than three sentences or she’s expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, ‘Sorry for the rant’ or ‘That may be dumb, but that’s what I think.”

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391. “It’s over, her mind whispered. There’s still hope, her heart insisted.”

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392. “We’re still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.”

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393. “Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you.”

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394. “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?”

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395. “See, the trouble with Nietzsche, besides his being a real killjoy, is that he thinks like a spoiled seven-year-old who doesn’t want to share his sandbox toys – ” “Sam!”

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396. “The world is full of dead optimists.”

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397. “This is the first family dinner I ever had,” she said. “The first of many,” Evie promised.”

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398. “Now is the only thing you can count on, Sam. It’s all we really get,” she said quietly, and felt that it was the truest thing she’d ever said.”

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399. “Mabel did deserve to Rest In Peace, and Evie knew she was a terrible person, because of there was any ghost she longed to see, even for just a moment, it was Mabel’s.”

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400. “Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”

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