Frases de Libba Bray página 2

“E achava que estava tendo uma crise existencial. Mas não era nada.”

“Favor não grudar na minha traseira: corpo no porta-malas.”

Going Bovine

“Os melhores alunos da minha escola vendem drogas para os melhores alunos da sua.”

Going Bovine

“Nada disso vai melhorar a qualidade das torradeiras, mas é um lance viajante que faz com que você passe o dia inteiro tentando desvendar a questão.”

Going Bovine

“Capítulo 13: onde sou hospitalizado, tenho um encontro com um anjo e outras coisas estranhas e irritantes.”

Going Bovine

“Sí, era demasiado. Por dentro se sentía como si fuera demasiado continuamente.”

Going Bovine

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

The Diviners

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“Você nunca pode realmente conhecer alguém completamente. É por isso que é a coisa mais aterrorizante do mundo, na verdade, levar alguém com fé, esperando que eles também aceitem sua fé. É um equilíbrio tão precário, é uma maravilha fazermos isso. E ainda..”

“As pessoas têm o hábito de inventar ficções que acreditam sinceramente para ignorar a verdade que não podem aceitar.”

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“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.”

Libba Bray: Frases em inglês

“I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“In every end, there is also a beginning.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“To those who will see, the world waits.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine (2009), p. 428

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

“You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked.

Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.”

Libba Bray livro Rebel Angels

Fonte: Rebel Angels

“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?… aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”

“I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended with vigilance, else it dies out.”

“Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing