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Mahdi Bray

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CAL BRAY We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of...
LIBBA BRAY We're family here. We all loved her.
NANCY BRAY I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at leas...
LIBBA BRAY There was a mismatch of supply and demand in China before the SARS virus.
JEFF 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 Now, the physical part, I don't know. He hasn't shown that aggressiveness when he goes to hit you.
CRAIG 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