Libba Bray Quotes

Why was his grief more powerful than his love? Why couldn't he find it within himself to fight back?Why am I not enough to live for?

Women who have power are always feared.

Yes, fine, I say, feeling dead inside. They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea who isn't really here.

You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.

You evah hear of a magic screw?'I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

You have a steady fella? Sam asked after a bit. No fella can hold me for long. Sam gave her a sideways glance. That a challenge? No. A statement of fact.

You know what works? Denial. As a coping tool, denial is severely underrated.

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

You see, Mr. Phillips, the truth of it is, I am so very American. She slapped the pen down on the onerous paper and slid them both toward her boss. And that is precisely why I can’t—no, why I refuse t...

You see, the glamour girl standing before you was not the dame I first laid eyes on in Penn Station. In fact, at first I thought she was the charwoman. Don’t you remember how frightful you looked that...

You try standing up to my mom. She's a force of nature.

You're perfect just the way you are...is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

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 re...

Don’t. I don’t know about you, but if I’m gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I’d rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn’t have the se...

In a manner befitting your station while at Spence. It’s fine to be kind to the lesser girls, but remember that they are not your equals. Station. Lesser girls. Not your equals. It’s a laugh, really.

Maybe it’s a Midwestern thing, but where I’m from, you’re not supposed to brag about yourself. That’s what my mom says. She says you should wait for people to recognize your good qualities. And then y...

She told Mary Lou about the curse that had plagued the women in her family for generations. Wild girls, they were called. Temptresses. Witches. Girls of fearless sexual appetite, who needed to run wil...

They talked, too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering course of their destinies with secret confessions offered like prayers to the room’s benevolent hush.

¡Está celoso! Kartik está celoso y Simon me ve...apetitosa. Me siento complacida. Y desconcertada. Pero sobretodo complacida.

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