Libba Bray Quotes

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high

Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD...

Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petits fours melting under the July sun.

For a second, I stop fighting and think about what he's asking me. Did I live? I made a best friend. Lost another. Cried. Laughed. Lost my virginity. Gained a piece of magic, gave it away. Possibly ch...

For half a second, I consider staying. Maybe I could find that bliss state again. Maybe I could stay here, follow all the rules, be safe always. But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one...

For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, ind...

From the elevator, Mabel watched the old woman's bare feet hobbling away, a trail of salt and the lace hem of her nightgown left in her wake like sea foam.

God save me from a woman's tears, for I've no strength against them.

Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he’s a terrible kisser to b...

He frowns. A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

Hold up. How do you have sex with somebody? Adina scoffed. Is she all, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, I didn’t see your penis there’?

However, it has come to our attention that there is a small safety glitch with the Git R Done 447, which might cause it to fire too soon or even randomly, accidentally killing someone you love. Awkwar...

I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.You are officially the most annoying unreal creature ev...

I know. And I'm Sorry. People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on. I'm offering you a new world.

I refuse to let the past find me here.

I'm whining. It's unattractive, but I find I'm powerless to stop

If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true...

It seemed odd to Sosie that she had to make some hard-and-fast decision about such an arbitrary, individual thing as attraction, like having to declare an orientation major: I am straight with a minor...