Top 463 Quotes & Sayings by Libba Bray - Page 8

I change the world, the world changes me.

The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.

Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

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?

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

No one can steal our dream.

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

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

When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

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."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.

Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father. A loving mother. Warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted. And the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane.

Oh, hello," Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. "Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?" It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg," Balder answers. Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.

As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.

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

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

There are no wrong decisions ? only different ones.

Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

To each his own magic.

The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

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

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?

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

Truth casts a spell of its own.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.

I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.

The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries.

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.