Quote

Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

Libba Bray

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Feeling
Evie
Feelings
Yelling
Didn
Judged
Feel
Hated
Feels
Skin
Made
Skins
Mind
Ugly
Small

More quotes by Libba Bray

Image
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.
Libba Bray
Image
Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.
Libba Bray
Image
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
Image
You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.
Libba Bray
Image
People aren't always what you want them to be
Libba Bray
Image
Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it
Libba Bray
Image
Why does everyone want to own me? Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone? Because you're beautiful, Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. People always think they can own beautiful things.
Libba Bray
Image
They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.
Libba Bray
Image
I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
Libba Bray
Image
Women who have power are always feared.
Libba Bray
Image
Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.
Libba Bray
Image
Will you punish me forever?
Libba Bray
Image
Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
Libba Bray
Image
There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.
Libba Bray
Image
Does my new feminism make me look fat?
Libba Bray
Image
You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?
Libba Bray
Image
I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.
Libba Bray
Image
How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.
Libba Bray
Image
Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?
Libba Bray
Image
Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.
Libba Bray