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Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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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.
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Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.
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I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
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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.
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I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
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What took you so long?” Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of books, which they were tucking into Will’s attaché case. “I walked to Jerusalem for the Bible. I knew you’d want an original,” Evie snapped.
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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.
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War. Gorgon spits the word. That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
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The hand you hold the longest is your own.
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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?
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Goodbye, I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.
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She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.
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It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.
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And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
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She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.
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Im a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.
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