Quotes of Libba Bray - somelinesforyou

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

- Libba Bray

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

- Libba Bray

“ But we can't go back. We can only go forward. ”

- Libba Bray

“ I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop. ”

- Libba Bray

“ 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

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

- Libba Bray

“ To those who will see, the world waits. ”

- Libba Bray

“ I change the world, the world changes me. ”

- Libba Bray

“ I should never be left alone with my mind for too long. ”

- Libba Bray

“ My misery is reaching epidemic proportions. ”

- Libba Bray

“ Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder? ”

- Libba Bray

“ God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye threepointers were straightup amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons. ”

- Libba Bray

“ Maybe there’s a heaven, like they say, a place where everything we’ve ever done is noted and recorded, weighed on big karma scales. Maybe not. Maybe this whole thing is just a giant experiment run by aliens who find out human hijinks amusing. Or maybe we’re an abandoned project started by a deity who checked out a long time ago, but we’re still hardwired to believe, to try to make meaning out of the seemingly random. Maybe we’re all part of the same unconscious stew, dreaming the same dreams, hoping the same hopes, needing the same connection, trying to find it, missing, trying again—each of us playing our parts in the other’s plotlines, just one big ball of human yarn tangled up together. Maybe this is it. ”

- Libba Bray

“ One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame. ”

- Libba Bray

“ I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it. ”

- Libba Bray

“ They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor. ”

- Libba Bray

“ There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way. ”

- Libba Bray

“ Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended with vigilance, else it dies out. ”

- Libba Bray

“ . . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets. ”

- Libba Bray

“ One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame. ”

- Libba Bray

“ Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy? ”

- Libba Bray

“ I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew. ”

- Libba Bray

“ I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living. ”

- Libba Bray

“ Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word? ”

- Libba Bray

“ We are nowhere, wanting to be somewhere, idling at the starting line of adulthood. ”

- Libba Bray

“ Today is a hard day." Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope. ”

- Libba Bray

“ But as he listened to the moans and cries of those around him, he understood that hope was not a concept of faith meant to bring man closer to God but one of denial and delusion meant to keep him from accepting that God did not exist. ”

- Libba Bray

“ You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet.. ”

- Libba Bray

“ Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all. ”

- 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
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