It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all. Libba Bray More Quotes by Libba Bray More Quotes From Libba Bray Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right. Libba Bray lightdarkplay When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you. Libba Bray good-nightwaitingdream In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time. Libba Bray regretpainart To those who will see, the world waits. Libba Bray waitingworld But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Libba Bray choicespastmoving What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too. Libba Bray knucklesmichiganmissing I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. Libba Bray cagesgardenmind I should never be left alone with my mind for too long. Libba Bray mindinsanitylong We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be. Libba Bray humanitybookneeds Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find. Libba Bray rebel-angelsreadysometimes In every end, there is also a beginning. Libba Bray ends You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it. Libba Bray successfulbelievepeople I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me. Libba Bray hopefulstupidworld Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art. Libba Bray girlnamesart Does my new feminism make me look fat? Libba Bray feminismdoelooks But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence. Libba Bray differentmenson Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it Libba Bray preparedlegsifs Truth casts a spell of its own. Libba Bray spellscasts The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish. Libba Bray desperationsilencewish They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor. Libba Bray favorstwolong
