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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, The Sweet Far Thing

“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.”

—Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

“People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won’t eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don’t know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for not reason at all.”

—Libba Bray

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

—Libba Bray.

“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”

—Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”

—Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“Do you ever feel that way?” “Lonely?” “Restless. As if you haven’t really met yourself yet. As if you’d passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - ‘Ah! There I Am! I’ve been missing that piece!’ But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it.”

—The Sweet Far Thing (Libba Bray)
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