But why not take pride in this country? It's the envy of the world. A place where any man can realiz...
LIBBA BRAY War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is...
LIBBA BRAY I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
LIBBA BRAY No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls,...
LIBBA BRAY I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel ...
LIBBA BRAY There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be eve...
LIBBA BRAY 'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, so...
LIBBA BRAY Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; ...
LIBBA BRAY One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me!
LIBBA BRAY God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash.
Jennife...
LIBBA BRAY What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing...
LIBBA BRAY I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and c...
LIBBA BRAY It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's ...
LIBBA BRAY You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the rea...
LIBBA BRAY Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cu...
LIBBA BRAY Do you ever feel that way?"
"Lonely?"
I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't...
LIBBA BRAY We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, al...
LIBBA BRAY She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall...
LIBBA BRAY Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You ...
LIBBA BRAY Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.
LIBBA BRAY My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be a...
LIBBA BRAY I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.
LIBBA BRAY My whole life I’ve been ordered about. Now I shall give the orders.” I’ve never seen Felicity ...
LIBBA BRAY Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.
LIBBA BRAY I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick.
-Gemma Doyle Trilogy
LIBBA BRAY Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's s...
LIBBA BRAY I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who we...
LIBBA BRAY You're not a man. You're their lackey. I don't care about you, or your brother, or your ridic...
LIBBA BRAY A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, ...
LIBBA BRAY It isn't the bloody weather!"
I've shocked them into silence. I should stop. Apologize for my o...
LIBBA BRAY You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I...
LIBBA BRAY One day, as Sarita tended to the wash, Gemma played in the garden. She was a knight, you see, with a...
LIBBA BRAY Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.
LIBBA BRAY But Gemma, you could change the world."
"That should take far more than my power," I say.
...
LIBBA BRAY I know you adore Father, but he isn't the white knight you imagine him to be. He never was. True, he...
LIBBA BRAY I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
LIBBA BRAY Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do...
LIBBA BRAY Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every...
LIBBA BRAY I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-"
"The world does not forgive mistakes ...
LIBBA BRAY I change the world, the world changes me.
LIBBA BRAY But...you could have whatever you wished."
"Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I ...
LIBBA BRAY I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful...
LIBBA BRAY I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, ...
LIBBA BRAY We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid,...
LIBBA BRAY My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.
LIBBA BRAY And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, tho...
LIBBA BRAY We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regre...
LIBBA BRAY I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I und...
LIBBA BRAY I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
LIBBA BRAY What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed t...
LIBBA BRAY I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powe...
LIBBA BRAY I refuse to let the past find me here.
LIBBA BRAY I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly w...
LIBBA BRAY Women who have power are always feared.
LIBBA BRAY I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that...
LIBBA BRAY It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believ...
LIBBA BRAY I changed the world; the world changed me.
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect...
LIBBA BRAY But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in ...
LIBBA BRAY May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about ot...
LIBBA BRAY If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.
LIBBA BRAY There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.
LIBBA BRAY I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light yo...
LIBBA BRAY I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.
LIBBA BRAY Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held hi...
LIBBA BRAY What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly.
Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl...
LIBBA BRAY In every end, there is also a beginning.
LIBBA BRAY How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or ...
LIBBA BRAY I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because ...
LIBBA BRAY There are no safe choices. Only other choices.
LIBBA BRAY Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once ...
LIBBA BRAY There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we...
LIBBA BRAY Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.
LIBBA BRAY My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to...
LIBBA BRAY Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.
LIBBA BRAY 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked.

Will looked over the top of his spectacles....
LIBBA BRAY Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?
LIBBA BRAY Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.
LIBBA BRAY Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.
LIBBA BRAY Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thi...
LIBBA BRAY See, now I don't know whether to be all 'Yay!' because you're empowered or sad because you're having...
LIBBA BRAY Every city is a ghost.
New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel be...
LIBBA BRAY Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they c...
LIBBA BRAY Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.
LIBBA BRAY In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your ...
LIBBA BRAY A woman's reputation is her worth... IT is the way it is. You may hate me for saying so, but there i...
LIBBA BRAY You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the peop...
LIBBA BRAY We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I gu...
LIBBA BRAY You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the w...
LIBBA BRAY We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.
LIBBA BRAY I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.
LIBBA BRAY Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.
LIBBA BRAY In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifi...
LIBBA BRAY I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.
LIBBA BRAY When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore ...
LIBBA BRAY But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
LIBBA BRAY It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough;...
LIBBA BRAY I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing an...
LIBBA BRAY I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
LIBBA BRAY And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
LIBBA BRAY People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the tr...
LIBBA BRAY Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.
LIBBA BRAY I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion...
LIBBA BRAY Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all...
LIBBA BRAY I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish,...
LIBBA BRAY But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that...
LIBBA BRAY I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you...
LIBBA BRAY You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his...
LIBBA BRAY I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.
LIBBA BRAY There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would li...
LIBBA BRAY - So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautif...
LIBBA BRAY Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damn...
LIBBA BRAY Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.
LIBBA BRAY In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.
LIBBA BRAY The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is, ... And it never stops.
LIBBA BRAY You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on you...
LIBBA BRAY People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know th...
LIBBA BRAY These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has no...
LIBBA BRAY We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of...
LIBBA BRAY I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at leas...
LIBBA BRAY You must be the change you want to see in the world.
LIBBA BRAY Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that ...
LIBBA BRAY I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance ...
LIBBA BRAY Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the...
LIBBA BRAY Oh, hello," Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. "Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself...
LIBBA BRAY I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what...
LIBBA BRAY Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, ...
LIBBA BRAY So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, t...
LIBBA BRAY What did I do to make Mommy leave?”
“You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.”<...
LIBBA BRAY I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like th...
LIBBA BRAY I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you'...
LIBBA BRAY Truth casts a spell of its own.
LIBBA BRAY I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's f...
LIBBA BRAY Write like it matters, and it will.
LIBBA BRAY She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right....
LIBBA BRAY Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
LIBBA BRAY Mom's crying a bit, quietly, the way she always does. She never utters a sound even when she's cryin...
LIBBA BRAY Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
LIBBA BRAY You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around ...
LIBBA BRAY The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.
LIBBA BRAY Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of...
LIBBA BRAY What frightens you?
What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch ...
LIBBA BRAY I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.
LIBBA BRAY Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
LIBBA BRAY To those who will see, the world waits.
LIBBA BRAY Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries ...
LIBBA BRAY As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a carto...
LIBBA BRAY As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions abou...
LIBBA BRAY What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-...
LIBBA BRAY You're perfect just the way you are...is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.
LIBBA BRAY Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were...
LIBBA BRAY Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
LIBBA BRAY The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-s...
LIBBA BRAY Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules."
You can't real...
LIBBA BRAY But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can ...
LIBBA BRAY Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good...
THOMAS BRAY The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or U...
TIM BRAY It allows us to get that cleanup done at no cost to the taxpayers.
BILL BRAY When it comes to the building delays, people need to look at the long term and not just the present....
BILL BRAY This matter will be looked into fully. The city encourages anybody who has any info on this or any o...
BILL BRAY The city is fortunate to receive this money and help its residents improve their homes, improve the ...
BILL BRAY Whatever they want we will provide.
BILL BRAY When you walk off the train from New York, you see this dirt parking lot with deep ruts and tractor-...
BILL BRAY If you come out with an idea, people will say you are putting the cart before the horse. If you do a...
BILL BRAY [Mueller] has a bookstore but doesn't have enough room for storage.
BILL BRAY It's great to have someone who's willing to invest in New Brunswick and who believes that New Brunsw...
BILL BRAY They seem to be aiding and abetting the terrorists.
BILL BRAY Many of the founding fathers either traveled through or at some point stayed here in our city.
BILL BRAY Of course no one accused the old woman of being a witch. But she was foreign. Her words percolated u...
CARYS BRAY She had powder on her from head to toe. You couldn't tell if she was black or white.
CAL BRAY That way, if they come back, it's technically trespassing.
NANCY BRAY I don't know how he practices. He has adequate speed for the position when he's healthy, and anytime...
CRAIG BRAY Friends will always be there for the party. REAL friends will be there after the party...
BRAY LOVE What happened (against Boise State) shows a lot. The way we came back and the way the offense marche...
TRENT BRAY There's always someone there that you know that you can have fun with.
JUSTIN BRAY You will be practicing with them twice a day, and they are just as good as you are. They will be jus...
JUSTIN BRAY When we speak about fascism, we must not drift too far away from thinking about the people who colle...
MARK BRAY How can you have too much employment, too much achievement?
BILL BRAY The tragic irony of modern anti-fascism is that the more successful it is, the more its raison d'etr...
MARK BRAY No. No one knows about it. Of course, some might know about it now, huh?
HARLO BRAY The Switch Rodeo 5 - a variation of a cork was the trick that clinched it for me.
JUSTIN BRAY It's a little scary because he hasn't shown he can make a tackle in the Big 12. That's an issue. It'...
CRAIG BRAY That wasn't a good, healthy job in the first place.
CAL BRAY After '85, I never set foot in there again.
CAL BRAY We're family here. We all loved her.
NANCY BRAY There was a mismatch of supply and demand in China before the SARS virus.
JEFF BRAY Now, the physical part, I don't know. He hasn't shown that aggressiveness when he goes to hit you.
CRAIG BRAY They taught me a lot. I was brought up through the system by the seniors. I've played all four years...
JAQUAN BRAY It's difficult to still score with double-teams and box-and-ones, but it's just another test for me....
JAQUAN BRAY Last year, I didn't do much scoring, because we had people like Leonard, Sean Glenn and J.P, but I k...
JAQUAN BRAY It was something I looked forward to. I knew what I was coming into. I knew we lost nine seniors. I ...
JAQUAN BRAY We do very little, including hiring staff, without involving young people in the process.
JANICE BRAY We haven't even begun to look at structures yet.
JANICE BRAY Rather than threats, I'm looking at opportunities.
JANICE BRAY It's similar to going through a death. I'm just saddened. September will never be the same in this t...
JAYNE BRAY It is difficult to have a high level of confidence about where the cell phone market is going to be ...
JEFF BRAY People are comfortable that handset volume can grow at high single-digit rates for the next few year...
JEFF BRAY Didn't think there could be anything worse until now.
JEFF BRAY Indian gaming, I don't regard it as a competitive industry. Anything that helps the tribe become sel...
JEFF BRAY