Frases de Libba Bray página 8

“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.”

Esta tradução está aguardando revisão. Está correcto?

“What happens if your choice is misguided,
You must try to correct it
But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t?
Then you must find a way to live with it.”

Libba Bray: Frases em inglês

“Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker."
"What are you going to motivate people to do?"
Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational… stuff.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Will you punish me forever?”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again.
It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.”
“How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.”

Libba Bray livro Rebel Angels

Fonte: Rebel Angels

“We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan,” he’d said.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!”

Fonte: Lair of Dreams

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

“No, I call. Come back.
I'm here, he says.
But I can't see. It's too bright.
You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.'
They will remain protected,' Asha insists.
No, 'I say. 'Only untested.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“Write like it matters, and it will.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.”

“Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.”

“He’s not dead; just very tired.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Fonte: Going Bovine

“Jericho lay back down on his side, watching her breathe just an arm's length from him. She was not beautiful while she slept; her mouth hung open and she snored very lightly, and this, despite everything that had happened, made him smile.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another…”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you… and you could change the magic.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

“What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?"
- "Beauty Queens”

“Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“People see what they want to see when they need to.”

Libba Bray livro The Diviners

Fonte: The Diviners

“HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fonte: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.”

Fonte: Beauty Queens

“Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.”

Libba Bray livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing