909 Quotes by Libba Bray

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 chiaroscuro, 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 is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

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.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

I change the world, the world changes me.

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.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.