Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.
Libba Bray
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Offering
Hadn
Meant
Conversation
Trouble
Help
Helping
Trapped
People
More quotes by Libba Bray
You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!
Libba Bray
People aren't always what you want them to be
Libba Bray
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
Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.
Libba Bray
We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.
Libba Bray
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.
Libba Bray
The key holds the truth
Libba Bray
Write like it matters, and it will.
Libba Bray
The hand you hold the longest is your own.
Libba Bray
She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s fresh cup of coffee.
Libba Bray
How can my ankles and arms be obscene?
Libba Bray
There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.
Libba Bray
You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.
Libba Bray
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
I refuse to let the past find me here.
Libba Bray
This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can, he says, and I pull him to me.
Libba Bray
Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. “Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider—he is a bit of a killjoy.
Libba Bray
But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
Libba Bray
That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.
Libba Bray
Taylor clapped for attention. “Miss New Mexico, let’s not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don’t even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.
Libba Bray