I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

Libba Bray

Tags: love

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In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.”

“No, you won’t.” Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving.

Libba Bray

Tags: champions

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I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the feel of my own body. I’m not a slut or a nympho or someone who’s just asking for it. And if I talk too loud it’s just that I’m trying to be heard.

Libba Bray

Tags: girls

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What did I do to make Mommy leave?”
“You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.”
“Then why?” she’d wailed.
“I don’t know,” her daddy had said, and he looked so sad.
“It isn’t fair!”
“No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a mile. The world’s only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.

Libba Bray

Tags: loss fair

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He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love.

Libba Bray

Tags: humor libba-bray rebel-angels felicity-worthington

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He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

Libba Bray

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I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.

Libba Bray

Tags: humor gemma-doyle libba-bray a-great-and-terrible-beauty felicity-worthington

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I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

Libba Bray

Tags: humor drinking hangovers

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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.

Libba Bray

Tags: truth love death libba-bray a-great-and-terrible-beauty miss-moore romantic-ideals

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I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

Libba Bray

Tags: thinking gemma-doyle libba-bray a-great-and-terrible-beauty using-your-brain

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