Quotes by Libba Bray

Maybe there’s a heaven, like they say, a place where everything we’ve ever done is noted and recorded, weighed on big karma scales. Maybe not. Maybe this whole thing is just a giant experiment run by aliens who find out human hijinks amusing. Or maybe we’re an abandoned project started by a deity who checked out a long time ago, but we’re still hard-wired to believe, to try to make meaning out of the seemingly random. Maybe we’re all part of the same unconscious stew, dreaming the same dreams, hoping the same hopes, needing the same connection, trying to find it, missing, trying again—each of us playing our parts in the other’s plotlines, just one big ball of human yarn tangled up together. Maybe this is it.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

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

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, arent we all just a little crazy?

Ive never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one persons face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

I think about dying every day, because I cant stop thinking about living.

. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..

Write like it matters, and it will.

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.

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

Pippas laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. Its a misery. I wish I were someone else.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Ive never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

What kind of person doesnt let you have gummi bears?

Ive had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

Id like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless youre reading Sarah Palin.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? Thats a step too far.