Quotes by Libba Bray

“I think theres such an overlap between (Victorian) culture and Southern culture, ... There is repression and darkness and (a hint of) Whats going on behind that respectable veneer?”

“Theres a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is, ... And it never stops.”

“It started a whole new chapter in my life to discover my father was gay, ... I think its very hard to discover that everything you thought you knew up to the age of 14 is out the window.”

“(It was) the fact that he had to keep secrets -- and I became a secret-keeper, ... You cant really marginalize or ghettoize a whole sector of the population, because it forces people into a life of shame. That, of course, trickles down.”

“I feel like Im speaking with my therapist.”

“Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.”

“My dad died 10 years ago, ... He was an AIDS death. I was fortunate that I was able to take two or three months off and be with him at the end. We were very close.”

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

But we cant go back. We can only go forward.

I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

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?

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. Its a garden. And it requires cultivating.

To those who will see, the world waits.

I change the world, the world changes me.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

One could argue that its romantic to die for love. Of course, then youre dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

Ive heard it said that God is in the details. Its the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

They have money and position and Ann has none.Its amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

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

God doesnt like lesbians, Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash.Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldnt understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, whod never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadnt God made both of them? But people were like that, shed noticed. Theyd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.