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
believe who-i-am long
It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
believe mean thinking
People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.
pain father believe
Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.
believe magic illusion
The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.
queens believe opportunity
What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens
pain believe ignorance
And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.
believe
There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.
children lying believe
I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.
believe might poet
Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
believe order people
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
queens nice believe
May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
believe successful people
You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
dad dreaded
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
speaking
I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.