Frases de Libba Bray página 3

“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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“We create the illusions we need to go on.”

Libba Bray: Frases em inglês

“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's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“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.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

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

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?”

“Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

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“But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“Women who have power are always feared.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity,” Sam said.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

The Diviners
Variante: i salute your spunk, but question your sanity.

“The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked.

"Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.”

“Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.”

“So does mental illness.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent."
"Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But… she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?”

Libba Bray livro Rebel Angels

Variante: Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
Fonte: Rebel Angels

“To each his own magic.”

“‎Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage, for that matter.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

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“I refuse to let the past find me here.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

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“I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“Evie replied with an eye-roll. “Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I’m gone?”

“The only thing I’m trying to steal is your heart, doll.” Sam smirked.

“You’re not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners