Libba Bray, A Great And Terrible Beauty Quotes
I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.
I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.
Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.
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.
One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.
I'm Sorry, ' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an angel too young and who are we to question his mysterious ways.
What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It’s such a bother that it must be masculine.
Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again, " I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.
Kartik feels like a country I want to travel—vast, dangerous, and unknown.
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.