Libba Bray
I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.Collection: Not Interested
Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.Collection: Drink
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.Collection: Hands
Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.Collection: Mean
There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.Collection: Dream
You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.Collection: Girl
Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.Collection: Dark
Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.Collection: Girl
There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.Collection: Ordinary
Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?” “You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. “Don’t kiss strange men in Penn Station.Collection: Kissing
He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.Collection: Doors
There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.Collection: Decision
All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.Collection: Simple
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' 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' -page 569Collection: Magic
I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.Collection: Girl
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?Collection: Girl
She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.Collection: Lying
We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.Collection: Horse
But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.Collection: Mean
Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.Collection: Brother
Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted.Collection: Father
The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.Collection: Gossip
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.Collection: Choices
You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Doctors
Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.Collection: School
Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.Collection: Laughing
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.Collection: Magic
Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.Collection: Pieces
Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?Collection: Angel
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.Collection: Hate
HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Sorry
But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage." Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.Collection: Kissing
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.Collection: World
The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.Collection: Morning
If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.Collection: Use
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?Collection: Beauty
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.Collection: Thinking
She's no beauty, mateCollection: Mates
Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more.Collection: Waiting
Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.Collection: Morning
I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.Collection: Wish
They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.Collection: Dream
Will you punish me forever?Collection: Forever
No one can steal our dream.Collection: Dream
Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even highCollection: Stoners
I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle TrilogyCollection: Hockey
Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.Collection: Differences