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A Great and Terrible Beauty quotes about beauty
I’m an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
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, A Great and Terrible Beauty
Oh, I didn’t think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again, ” I say, cheerily. “It’s sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
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, A Great and Terrible Beauty
I don’t know why I feel so wounded with Kartik’s obvious infatuation with Pippa. There’s no romance between us. There’s nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It’s not Kartik’s longing that hurts. It’s my own. It’s knowing that I’ll never have what she has–a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I’ll always have to wonder whether I’m truly wanted or whether I’ve just been settled for.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they’ve fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don’t know when or how the change took place.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
Pippa’s laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. ‘Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It’s a misery. I wish I were someone else.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I’ve got to think.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
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