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
needs goes-on illusion
We create the illusions we need to go on.
dream hands circles
They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.
wish want should
I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.
morning
Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.
mates
She's no beauty, mate
book wicked fine
In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?" "No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.
morning noon trouble
The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
use ifs bits
If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.
lying world
The world is a lie...not you and me.
beauty beautiful mistake
But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?
thinking blue white
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.
powerful knowing want
It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.
shoes police helping
The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.
girl fingers middle
She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.