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161 " Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel. "
― Libba Bray , Beauty Queens
162 " I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas. "
― Libba Bray , Going Bovine
163 " Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate. "
― Libba Bray , The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
164 " Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more... "
― Libba Bray , The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)
165 " She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real. "
166 " I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for. "
― Libba Bray , A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
167 " 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. "
168 " I refuse to let the past find me here. "
169 " Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic. "
― Libba Bray , Rebel Angels (Gemma Doyle, #2)
170 " I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons. "
171 " 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. "
172 " Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high "
173 " I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false. "
174 " Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know. "
175 " 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. "
176 " I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine. "
177 " The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows. "
178 " What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British. "
179 " Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers. "
180 " Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see. "