Quotes from Libba Bray

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?

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

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.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…" Uncle Will frowned. "Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own...bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity," Sam said.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?" "Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended with vigilance, else it dies out.

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.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?

We create the illusions we need to go on.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

I want to ask him if it's possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn't. I failed myself.

Women who have power are always feared.

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

War. Gorgon spits the word. That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.