Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

Libba Bray

Stichwörter: humor gemma-doyle libba-bray a-great-and-terrible-beauty boarding-schools



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I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Libba Bray

Stichwörter: individuality uniqueness gemma-doyle libba-bray a-great-and-terrible-beauty quirks



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Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.

Libba Bray

Stichwörter: humor revenge gemma-doyle libba-bray a-great-and-terrible-beauty



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Felicity laughs and takes on the tone of a fashionable lady. "Darling, the Bryn-Joneses have just done the most marvelous thing in their parlor with human blood. We simply must have ours done straightaway!

Libba Bray

Stichwörter: humor libba-bray a-great-and-terrible-beauty felicity-worthington



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Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?

Libba Bray

Stichwörter: humor libba-bray a-great-and-terrible-beauty bedtime-stories miss-moore governesses



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Even Felicity can't keep from sputtering with laughter. I wish I could use my evil eye. Or at least my evil boot right smack against Cecily’s backside.

Libba Bray


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Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

Libba Bray

Stichwörter: libba-bray rebel-angels felicity-worthington



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A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well.

God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

Libba Bray

Stichwörter: humor determination gemma-doyle libba-bray rebel-angels



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I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.

Libba Bray


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If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.

Libba Bray

Stichwörter: humor



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