Libba Bray Quotes

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing, Evie muttered. Three squares a day. Evangeline, Will said with a sigh. Charity begins at home. So does mental illness.

I knew it. You’re an alien, said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. Yes, I’m an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I’m going to steal your...

I like the way Georgia looks, so different from Texas. All those tall pine trees and that rich, red dirt, like the ground bled and scabbed over, like it’s got a history you can read in the very clay.

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

I think that the lady dies not because she leaves the tower for the outside world but because she lets herself float through the world pulled by the current after a dream. Do you mean she should of p...

I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With boo...

I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: . Hey, it's not my fault they don't have TiVo yet.

I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.

I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you. Daisy’s mouth hung open in outrage. Well, I never! Yeah...

I wouldn’t marry you if you were the last man on earth.If I were the last man on earth it’d be because you drove the other poor suckers to early graves.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

I've the run of the place, and so i spend some time exploring, climbing steep stairs into thin turrets whose windows give me a bird's-eye view of the land surrounding Spence. I flit past locked doors...

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

In her fantasy, she imagined surrendering to a dominating Jericho. She’d liked it as a fantasy. There was something wild and hedonistic about the idea of allowing herself to be taken over by a big, st...

In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: U...

In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of...

In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.No, you won’t. Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to c...

Inside a dream I yearned anewYou appeared, like morning dewMy heart leaped up, no longer blueBut only here in Slumberland...The moon sank low in the morning skyWhy, oh why, must we say good-bye?I'll s...

Isn’t this what happens in the movies a lot? There’s some old dude or woman who tells your fortune and is all, ‘Oh, you’re gonna die or make a boatload of money or meet a girl. Now give me all your ca...

It had been a thudding bore of a day; rain had kept Evie inside at the museum, where she amused herself by rearranging the books on one shelf according to a taxonomy only she understood.