909 Quotes by Libba Bray

Any good world would allow for us to have free will, yes?” he continued. “Can we agree to this point? But once human beings have free will, they also have the ability to make choices – and commit evil. Thus, this very good thing, free will, allows the possibility of evil into our fine world.

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams.

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

You know who’s getting hurt? Workers. Poor people. Immigrants. Every day. It’s a rigged game, Evie. The people at the top say they believe in the people at the bottom until those people try to climb up. And then the people at the top step on the hands of the climbing people they claim to believe in and cast them down the ladder.

Memphis – it’s just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It’s what they do. It’s not following you, and it’s not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother.

When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

I’ve had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

When did you become a cynic?” Sam asked. Evie smiled. “When I found out I was a little girl.

There are no wrong decisions – only different ones.