Frases de Libba Bray página 6

“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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“Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.”

Libba Bray: Frases em inglês

“We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.”

Libba Bray livro Rebel Angels

Fonte: Rebel Angels

“Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later?

“Bank’s closed, pal.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“How can my ankles and arms be obscene?”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians… And magic itself is neither good nor bad; it is intent that makes it either.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“See, now I don't know whether to be all 'Yay!' because you're empowered or sad because you're having delusional almost-sex with an imaginary boyfriend.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“I'm a librarian, not an oracle.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“No one can steal our dream.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“My cholera's acting up again.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend.
I've never known a braver girl," he says.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”

Libba Bray livro Rebel Angels

Fonte: Rebel Angels

“Does my new feminism make me look fat?”

Libba Bray livro Rebel Angels

Fonte: Rebel Angels

“Everything is randomly connected.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?'
It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“Travel opens your mind as few other things do.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.”

Libba Bray livro Rebel Angels

Fonte: Rebel Angels

“I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine