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They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Kept
Loved
Lying
Going
People

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We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.
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I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?
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I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.
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But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?
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The key holds the truth
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Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.
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In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it? No, I say. I suppose it only makes everything known.
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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've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.
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Live life as if today is your last day living. :-)
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What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.
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It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough you would drown in it if possible.
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Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.
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The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.
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I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.
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It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.
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Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
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My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?
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Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.
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I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
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