December 2011
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All of you are Lady Hopes and Most Highs, never forget it, lovelies.
“822. “Yes, I feel incredibly lucky to be standing out here in the freezing cold...”
– A Great and Terrible Beauty, Bray 74 (via bookquoter)
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“They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn’t that what everyone wants?...”
– Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)
“Once upon a time there were four girls. One was pretty. One was clever. One was...”
– Libba Bray, “A Great and Terrible Beauty” (via thegreyladystole)
“It is the scorpion’s nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn’t...”
– Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)
“I was only desperate to make conversation and prove myself a witty, amusing, and...”
– Libba Bray, Rebel Angels (via ahbvg)
“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who...”
– Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)
“Across the Thames, the deep chimes of Big Ben sing two o’clock. Kartik helps me...”
– Rebel Angels - Libba Bray (via paolaquincampoix)
“We create illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or...”
– Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)
“This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.”
– Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)
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“We can’t live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you...”
– Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)
“Dance with me, Fee,” Pippa calls, her smile radiant. She takes Felicity’s hands...”
– Rebel Angels, Libba Bray. (via butiloveyouinyourfuck-mepumps)
“How I’d love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place...”
– A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (via lostinthesounds)
“In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us...”
– A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (via typefont-myheart)
“I’m like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I’m flawed....”
– Libba Bray - The Sweet Far Thing (via thatquote)
“It’s knowing that I’ll never have what she has- a beauty so powerful it brings...”
– Gemma Doyle, A Great and Terrible Beauty (via kerunio)
“I’m feeling very optimistic…A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an...”
– Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it...”
– Rebel Angels, Libba Bray (via caitalonas)
“I despise absolutely everyone just now.”
– Libba Bray, Rebel Angels (via ahbvg)
“Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue...”
– Libba Bray (via decaying-organic-matter)
“I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I...”
– Libba Bray, from A Great and Terrible Beauty
“We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take...”
– Libba Bray (via ophidiophobic)
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"Yer a Lady Hope."
Why can’t I stop laughing at this?
annabellhollow asked: Ever since I read the wonderful Gemma Doyle trilogy I wanted to play Gemma in the movie- if it ever actually comes out/or is made!
“As infuriating as he is, I want him to be gazing only at me”
– Libba Bray (via thevirginiamaid)
“Why are we compelled to lie? Why is the truth too bright for our souls to bear?”
– -The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray (via vivamusetamemus)
“Two weeks until Christmas and my mood blackens by the hour.”
– Rebel Angels (via ahbvg)
“Women with power are always feared”
– Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty (via papergirlunderapapermoon)
“We’re all damaged - somehow.”
– A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray