909 Quotes by Libba Bray

What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand before and after in which they are innocent victims who have no say in the matter. Perhaps they simply are kissed and want to kiss back. Perhaps they even kiss first. And why should they not?

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick.-Gemma Doyle Trilogy

The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.

I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.

There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.

He took her face into his hands and his kiss blotted out the sky

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die." He winks. "But not without one hell of a fight.

We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the injustice of racism and exclusion. These realities exist side by side. It is our past and our present. The future is unwritten. This is a book about ghosts. For we live in a haunted house.