Libba Bray Quotes, Thoughts and Images

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Women who have power are always feared.

I refuse to let the past find me here.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Write like it matters, and it will.

Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

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 love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

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.

To those who will see, the world waits.

Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.

People see what they want to see when they need to.

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

We create the illusions we need to go on.

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

One can never go back. One always has to move forward.

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.