160 "Libba Bray" Quotes And Sayings

Libba Bray is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult series The Diviners, The Sweet Far Thing, and Rebel Angels. Her short stories have appeared in literary journals, including Narrative Magazine, The Sun, and The Best of the Missouri Review. Her first novel, "A Great and Terrible Beauty," was a winner of the Newbery Honor Medal. Libba lives in Memphis with her husband and son.

I love you for who you are, not who the...
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I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be. Libba Bray
But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
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But we can't go back. We can only go forward. Libba Bray
I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running...
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I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop. Libba Bray
You can never know about about your own destiny: are...
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You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs? Libba Bray
I know because I read... Your mind is not a...
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I know because I read... Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. Libba Bray
To those who will see, the world waits.
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To those who will see, the world waits. Libba Bray
I change the world, the world changes me.
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I change the world, the world changes me. Libba Bray
I should never be left alone with my mind for...
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I should never be left alone with my mind for too long. Libba Bray
One could argue that it's romantic to die for love....
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One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame. Libba Bray
I've heard it said that God is in the details....
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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it. Libba Bray
They have money and position and Ann has none. It's...
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They have money and position and Ann has none. It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor. Libba Bray
Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
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Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder? Libba Bray
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God doesn't like lesbians, " Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons. Libba Bray
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Maybe there’s a heaven, like they say, a place where everything we’ve ever done is noted and recorded, weighed on big karma scales. Maybe not. Maybe this whole thing is just a giant experiment run by aliens who find out human hijinks amusing. Or maybe we’re an abandoned project started by a deity who checked out a long time ago, but we’re still hard-wired to believe, to try to make meaning out of the seemingly random. Maybe we’re all part of the same unconscious stew, dreaming the same dreams, hoping the same hopes, needing the same connection, trying to find it, missing, trying again–each of us playing our parts in the other’s plotlines, just one big ball of human yarn tangled up together. Maybe this is it. Libba Bray
There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in...
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There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way. Libba Bray
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that...
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Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out. Libba Bray
Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?
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Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word? Libba Bray
Who but the mad would choose to keep on living?...
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Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy? Libba Bray
I've never been in love. I will die without knowing...
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I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew. Libba Bray
I think about dying every day, because I can't stop...
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I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living. Libba Bray