Top 500 Libba Bray Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

354. “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.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

357. “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.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

360. “I am a lot of things, not all of them noble.”

— Libba Bray

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

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362. “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.”

— Libba Bray

363. “It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London – gossip is.”

— Libba Bray

364. “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.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

366. “Ohmigosh. No food at all.” Tiara sank down on the sand as if the full weight of their predicament had finally hit her. She blinked back tears. And then that megawatt smile that belonged on cereal boxes across the nation reappeared. “I am going to be so superskinny by pageant time!”

— Libba Bray

367. “Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It’s a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

369. “Even Evie believed in something, that something being Evie a lot of the time.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

372. “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

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

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

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

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376. “Alliteration. It’s when you repeat the same consonant in a phrase,” Memphis explained. “Huh. I was hoping it was something dirty.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

379. “Sam grabbed one of Jericho’s Civil War soldier figurines and held it up to his mouth. “Oh, Jericho,” he said in a high-pitched voice. “Take me in your arms, you big he-man, you!”

— Libba Bray

380. “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.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

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

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384. “I’ve had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”

— Libba Bray

385. “He’s jealous! Kartik is jealous and Simon finds me... delicious? I am a bit giddy. And confused. But no, mostly giddy, I find.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

387. “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.”

— Libba Bray

388. “It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.”

— Libba Bray

389. “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.”

— Libba Bray

390. “Sam’s mother used to say that inside everyone was the chance to change the world. It sat like a seed eager to grow into greatness. The professor could have his ghosts. Ordinary people were capable of extraordinary bravery. That was the only magic Sam knew or trusted.”

— Libba Bray

391. “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.”

— Libba Bray

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

— Libba Bray

393. “In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important rule of and successful illusion; First the people must want to believe it.”

— Libba Bray

394. “But how did you fight an enemy who never fought fair? Didn’t you have to break the rules to win against the Devil?”

— Libba Bray

395. “Unspeakable nightmares surround the men now. They would scream if they could. It’s no use. The dream has them, and it will not relinquish its hold. Ever. Back in their beds on Mott Street. the men’s bodies go limp. But behind their closed lids, their eyes move frantically as, one by one, they are pulled deeper and deeper into a nightmare from which they will never, ever wake.”

— Libba Bray

396. “Here is the world before you. You have only to reach for it.”

— Libba Bray

397. “Why had this power come to me? I can scarcely govern myself. At times, I feel as if I could dance through the halls with happiness, and then, just as suddenly, my thoughts are dark and lost and frightening.”

— Libba Bray

398. “Perhaps it is only the light. Perhaps it is the power of the realms at work through me. 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 first we know were to look without flinching.”

— Libba Bray

399. “I know because I read.”

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

— Libba Bray