Libba Bray
Libba Bray
Libba Brayis an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth11 March 1964
CityMontgomery, AL
CountryUnited States of America
hurt hard-times appreciate
These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.
epidemics misery proportion
My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.
helping blushing god-help
They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.
thinking lasts should
I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.
mother brother honesty
The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to know that just yet. Maybe he never will. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can suprise you. I talk to my brother as I never have before, trusting in him, letting the river listen to my confessions on its path toward the sea. ~pg 693
disappointment real drunk
I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by
feelings pages needs
I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself...I just need to feel something" A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by
love-you wow winner
Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!
sound gas gonzo
Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.
stoners conversation
Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
book reading ignorance
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
beautiful wife fortune
- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front? - Yes - I have warned them all.
drunk irony sometimes
...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.
fog our-future windowpane
The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.