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“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
-- Libba Bray
#Inspirational #Motivational #Change
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“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.”
-- Libba Bray
#Sorry #Dark #Hard Times
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“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
#Faith #People #Balance
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“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”
-- Libba Bray
#Struggle #Men #Evil
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“I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
-- Libba Bray
#Garden #Mind #Cages
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“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.”
-- Libba Bray
#Regret #Clouds #Wish
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“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.”
-- Libba Bray
#Dark #Light #Play
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“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
-- Libba Bray
#Queens #Nice #Believe
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“But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.”
-- Libba Bray
#Moving #Past #Choices
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“To those who will see, the world waits.”
-- Libba Bray
#Waiting #World
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“In every end, there is also a beginning.”
-- Libba Bray
#Ends
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“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell”
-- Libba Bray
#Forever #Mind #Form
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“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
#Heart #Details #Bones
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“I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.”
-- Libba Bray
#Stupid #Hopeful #World
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“Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.”
-- Libba Bray
#Buttons #Needs #Reset
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“The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.”
-- Libba Bray
#Dream #Xenophobia #Ignorance
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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.”
-- Libba Bray
#Book #Humanity #Needs
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“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”
-- Libba Bray
#Love You #Thinking #World
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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.”
-- Libba Bray
#Missing #Affection #Enough
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“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.”
-- Libba Bray
#Art #Pain #Regret
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“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”
-- Libba Bray
#Crazy #Mad #Littles
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“You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”
-- Libba Bray
#Believe #Successful #People
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“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
-- Libba Bray
#Hero #Power #Villain
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“There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.”
-- Libba Bray
#Character #Different #Path
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“I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.”
-- Libba Bray
#Passion #Wish #Contentment
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“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
-- Libba Bray
#Art #Pain #Regret
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“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”
-- Libba Bray
#Jobs #Realizing #Librarian
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“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
-- Libba Bray
#Choices #Safe
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“But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.”
-- Libba Bray
#Heart #Understanding #Mind
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“So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.”
-- Libba Bray
#Drug #Feelings #Needs
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