Libba Bray
35 quotes
Biography
"You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet.."
"I should never be left alone with my mind for too long."
"I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating."
"But we can't go back. We can only go forward."
"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."
"We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be."
"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."
"To those who will see, the world waits."
"Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all."
"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?"
"I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be."
"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."
"But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on."
"Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?"
"Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?"
"I change the world, the world changes me."
"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."
"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."
"Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else."
"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."
"Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?"
"I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school."
"Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary."
"My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s — Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid…"
"My favorite word is "redemption." I like both its meaning and the sound. My least favorite word is "maybe." "Maybe" is almost always a "no" drawn out in cruel fashion."