909 Quotes by Libba Bray

It isn’t that we do what we want. It’s that we’re allowed to want at all.

Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they’ve fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don’t know when or how the change took place.

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won’t have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

Just once, she’d like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.

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 historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions.

So, now I’ve been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

Theta’s hand slid just slightly toward Memphis’s. He inched his forward, too, just grazing the tips of her fingers with his.

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.