909 Quotes by Libba Bray

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.

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

There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another...

The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.

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

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.