Libba Bray Quotes

It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.

It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds suc...

I’ll be counting the cats when I come over. There better be the same number each time.

I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the feel of my own body. I’m not a slut or a nympho or someone who’s just asking for it. And if I talk t...

I’ve learned that feminism is for everybody and there’s nothing wrong with taking up space in the world, even if you have to fight for it a little bit, and that if you don’t feel like smiling or wavin...

Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has.Why did you do that? I ask.He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. She need...

Mary Lou wore the ring faithfully. She studied the coy girls the ones who pretended not to get the dirty joke that made Mary Lou stifle a laugh. The ones who practiced the shy downward glance who pret...

SPENCE, THAT DOUR, IMPOSING LADY EAST OF LONDON, has grown a friendly face in my absence. I’ve never been so happy to see a place in all my sixteen years. Even the gargoyles have lost their fierceness...

That's totally their interpreter, a girl with a lip ring informs us. Even though they totally record their music in English, they totally speak in Inuktitut. Totally.

They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?

This? This is Putopia, says Dr. A, the tall guy with the curly hair who was trying to catch the grape in his mouth. He's wearing a T-shirt under his lab coat that reads MY BANG THEORY IS BIGGER THAN Y...

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

We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

Well frankly, that's the sort of stuff I expect my critics to say, because they want to turn all women into sluts who can get an abortion at the drive-through while they're off at college gettin' indo...

What --- you don't believe in true love? Petra asked. The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?- Beauty Queens

What happened to the winner Adina asked.She tripped.And the first runner-up?Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. She tripped, too.

When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everyt...

When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurolo...

Will looked at Evie funny. Advertising?Yes. You've heard of it, haven't you? Swell modern invention. It lets people know about something they need. Soap, lipstick, radios—or your museum, for instance....

Will this be my life forevermore? Careful tea parties and the quiet fear that I don't belong, that I'm a fraud? I held magic in my hands! I tasted freedom in a land where summer doesn't end. I outsmar...