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Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2) QUOTES

Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2) QUOTES

1 " America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues made it the envy of the world. Sometimes it betrayed the very heart of its ideals. Sometimes the people dispensed with what was difficult or inconvenient to acknowledge. So the good people maintained the illusion of democracy and wrote another hymn to America. They sang loud enough to drown out dissent. They sang loud enough to overpower their own doubts. There were no plaques to commemorate mistakes. But the past didn’t forget. History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required period exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

2 " The land has a memory.
Every stream and river runs with a confession of sorts, history whispered over rocks, lifted in the beaks of birds at a stream, carried out to the sea. Buffalo thunder across plains whose soil was watered with the blood of battles long since relegated to musty books on forgotten shelves. Fields once strewn with blue and gray now flower with uneasy buds. The slave master snaps the lash, and generations later, the ancestral scars remain.
Under it all, the dead lie, remembering. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

3 " Every city is a ghost.
New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

4 " For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

5 " It's over, her mind whispered. There's still hope, her heart insisted. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

6 " We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan,” he’d said. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

7 " Could you look again, please?” the woman asked in a clipped, slightly British accent. “It was sent parcel post two weeks ago from Miss Felicity Worthington and addressed to Mrs. Rao, Mrs. Gemma Doyle Rao. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

8 " It was funny how one afternoon with a best friend could set a girl right. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

9 " Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you. So she lived in the moment, as if her life were one long party that never had to stop as long as she kept the good times going. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

10 " For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

11 " 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 , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

12 " 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 , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

13 " 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 , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

14 " Why was there so much silence between men? "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

15 " Just ducky! "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

16 " History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required periodic exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences. Will "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

17 " The wind whistles down into the skyscraper-bound canyons, across the broad expanses of the avenues and the narrow confines of the streets, where lives unfolded in secret, day in, day out: Sometimes a man sighs for want of love. Sometimes a child cries for the dropped lollipop, its sweetness barely tasted. Sometimes the girl gasps as the train screams into the station, shaken by how close she’d allowed herself to wander to the edge. Sometimes the drunk raises weary eyes to the rows of building rendered beautiful by a brief play of sunlight. “Lord?” he whispers into the held breath between taxi horns. The light catches on a city spire, fracturing for a second into glorious rays before the clouds move in again. The drunk lowers his eyes. “Lord, Lord…” he sobs, as if answering his own broken prayer. […] Another day closes. The sun sinks low on the horizon. It slips below the Hudson, smearing the West Side of Manhattan in a slick of gold. Night arrives for its watchful shift. The neon city bursts its daytime seams, and the great carnival of dreams begins again. "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

18 " It was a machine that required constant feeding- Henry hated the machine, and he hated himself for wanting the sort of admiration it promised, as if he had no worth unless someone was there to applaud it "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

19 " We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan, "

― Libba Bray , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)

20 " 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 , Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2)