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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f088bf | Una pregunta para la eternidad: ?esta locamente enamorada de mi la dama que tengo a la derecha? | Libba Bray | ||
| a7b06fc | El viento lo observa todo con indiferencia. Al fin y al cabo, no es mas que el viento. | Libba Bray | ||
| bc14767 | Tu madre y yo no aprobamos el alcohol. ?No has oido hablar de la Decimoctava Enmienda? - ?La de la ley seca? Bebo a su salud siempre que puedo. | Libba Bray | ||
| 463567a | En opinion de Evie habia pocas cosas peores que ser normal. Lo normal era para los paletos. Ella queria ser especial. Una estrella brillante. | Libba Bray | ||
| c82f725 | Modelo? ?Actriz? ?Princesa? Es demasiado hermosa para ser alguien corriente. | Libba Bray | ||
| f8a9406 | No se puede culpar a un chico por besar a la muchacha mas hermosa de Nueva York. | Libba Bray | ||
| bae5df5 | Bloody clothing is often a clue that something has gone awry. | humor | Libba Bray | |
| d91c816 | My whole life I've been ordered about. Now I shall give the orders." I've never seen Felicity so wounded. "Not me," she says. "I never ordered you about." "Oh, Fee." The old Pippa surfaces for just a moment, hopeful and childlike. She pulls Felicity to her. Something I cannot name passes between them, and then Pip's lips are on Fee's in a deep kiss, as if they feed on one another, their fingers entwined in each other's hair. And suddenly, I.. | gemma-doyle gemma-doyle-trilogy kiss lgbt libba-bray pippa-cross the-sweet-far-thing trilogy | Libba Bray | |
| cf8c804 | There is no progress without cost. | Libba Bray | ||
| 13839cc | It had been a thudding bore of a day; rain had kept Evie inside at the museum, where she amused herself by rearranging the books on one shelf according to a taxonomy only she understood. | Libba Bray | ||
| 0c95ee2 | We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. This light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth. | Libba Bray | ||
| 128fc0e | Kogato za niakoi khora svet't v'rvi tv'rde b'rzo napred, te se opitvat da go d'rpat nazad s's strakhovete si. | ясновидците напредък прогрес страхове | Libba Bray | |
| 7606010 | The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplaced their combs, and yet you were supposed to fall at their feet? Unacceptable. | Libba Bray | ||
| c72e1bc | My aunt says you should only pray to Jesus." Blind Bill grunted and spat. "You think the white folks' god is gonna help you? You think he's on our side?" "I don't think anybody's god is on our side." | white-people-god | Libba Bray | |
| eb658d5 | Murder was just another reason to drink | Libba Bray | ||
| ce1594e | The wind swoops over the tenements on Orchard Street, where some of those starry-eyed dreams have died and yet other dreams are being born into squalor and poverty, an uphill climb. It gives a slap to the laundry stretched on lines between tenements, over dirty, broken streets where, even at this hour, hungry children scour the bins for food. The wind has existed forever. It has seen much in this country of dreams and soap ads, old horrors .. | Libba Bray | ||
| fef163a | Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag or something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me? | Libba Bray | ||
| 6d6b52a | she told Mary Lou about the curse that had plagued the women in her family for generations. Wild girls, they were called. Temptresses. Witches. Girls of fearless sexual appetite, who needed to run wild under the moon. The world feared them. They had to hide their desires behind a veneer of respectability. | Libba Bray | ||
| 5f8da3a | There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that. | Libba Bray | ||
| 8e94f1b | En Nueva York todo el mundo es de algun otro lugar. | Libba Bray | ||
| 66a71e9 |
Bueno..., el viernes pasado, cuando los dos estabamos junto a los buzones... - ?Si? Evie movio las cejas insinuantemente. - Me puse muy cerca de el... - Aja. - Y le dije, asi, sin mas: < |
Libba Bray | ||
| 1b7ccce | La vida no viene a buscarte, Memphis. Tienes que ir tu a por ella. Los dos tenemos que ir a por ella. Porque nadie va a servirnosla en bandeja. | Libba Bray | ||
| e12288f | Luce su dolor como un abrigo de plumas demasiado pesadas para volar. | Libba Bray | ||
| 30b3ddd | A Evie le daba igual que le gritaran, pero odiaba sentirse juzgada. La irritaba, y hacia que se sintiera pequena, fea y sin arreglo. | Libba Bray | ||
| ae2c6eb | Esto es todo lo que hay para ti? Una gran fiesta constante? | Libba Bray | ||
| 75111bf | La linea entre la fe y el fanatismo esta en constante movimiento -respondio el profesor- ?Cuando se convierte la fe en justificacion? Cuando se transforma el derecho en logica y la cruzada en delito? | Libba Bray | ||
| fef9fb2 | Si Evie habia aprendido alguna verdad a lo largo de su corta vida, era que el perdon era mas sencillo de buscar que el permiso. Aunque tampoco tenia intencion de pedir ninguna de las dos cosas. | Libba Bray | ||
| b95a27f | Creen que me conocen, pero no es asi. | Libba Bray | ||
| 3d6eba9 | No me interesa. El amor es un lio, nina. Deja que las demas se vuelvan locas y se hagan ilusiones. ?Yo? Yo tengo planes. | Libba Bray | ||
| c48507f | Tenia que reconocerselo, la muchacha tenia agallas. Le gustaban las chicas con agallas. Siempre daban problemas. Y a Sam le gustaban los problemas incluso mas que las agallas. | Libba Bray | ||
| a0b9556 | Si, era demasiado. Por dentro se sentia como si fuera demasiado continuamente. | Libba Bray | ||
| 06adb24 |
Es que en ese colegio tuyo no te ensenaron a abordar una investigacion? - No. Pero se recitar el < |
Libba Bray | ||
| f93f619 | Los asesinatos eran una razon mas para pasar la noche bebiendo y bailando. Eran muy buenos para los negocios. | Libba Bray | ||
| a3e3243 | Cuando el mundo avanza demasiado rapido para algunas personas, estas intentan hacernos retroceder a todos con su miedo. | Libba Bray | ||
| 92a5182 | Corria al galope hacia la vida. | Libba Bray | ||
| f3f7c27 | Holy f---!" she managed before going under again, as if the water sensed that young ladies of such beauty and promise should never curse." -- | Libba Bray | ||
| 2ff9f3d | My family traditions are alcoholism and dysfunction," Jennifer said. "Oh, and anything you can make from government cheese." | Libba Bray | ||
| 7235df9 | they talked, too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering course of their destinies with secret confessions offered like prayers to the room's benevolent hush. | Libba Bray | ||
| f3e840c | Nicole did what she'd been taught since she was little and her parents had moved into an all-white neighborhood: She smiled and made herself as friendly and non threatening as possible. Its what she did when she met the parents of her friends. There was always that split second- something almost felt rather than seen- when the parents' faces would register a tiny shock, a palpable discomfort with Nicole's 'otherness.' And Nicole would smile.. | beauty-queens casual-racism racism-quotes | Libba Bray | |
| c86b855 | There is no greater power on this earth than story. People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense - words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions - words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History. | Libba Bray | ||
| 9c59cd5 | Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language. | Libba Bray | ||
| b4267b2 | My musical cutlery skills have landed me in the top concert halls of Europe. The Queen yelling out, 'Spoon solo!'" Duff played a mock spoon solo against his thigh, then made crowd sounds. "Of course, there was that tragic spork incident at the Hollywood Bowl. We don't talk about that." "You don't play anything, do you?" "Not a thing. I am completely and utterly useless." | Libba Bray | ||
| c0c63bc | I like the way Georgia looks, so different from Texas. All those tall pine trees and that rich, red dirt, like the ground bled and scabbed over, like it's got a history you can read in the very clay. | Libba Bray | ||
| 9497092 | I'm tired of everyone deciding what's for my own good! | Libba Bray |