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 in The Sweet Far Thing

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About Libba Bray

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Martha Elizabeth "Libba" Bray (March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, Beauty Queens, The Diviners series, and Under the Same Stars.

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He loved her. Was in love with her. Had always loved her. And it seemed that she loved him, too. It was funny how the world could change on a dime like that. One minute, you were some poor chump pining after a girl you thought didn't feel the same way about you, and the next, you were lying together, arms entwined, chest to chest, so close you could feel her heartbeat under her soft skin. You were looking into her eyes and seeing your whole future written there.

—Libba Bray in Before the Devil Breaks You

When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he's come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he's been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn't utter a word, but his smile says everything: I've missed you.

—Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing

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 sad for no reason at all.

—Libba Bray in Going Bovine

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And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

—Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing

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You can never know about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part in your own destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

—Libba Bray in Going Bovine

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More quotations tagged with “affection”

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I lived in the midst of an affectionate, charming family, and I am sure that there is no greater obstacle to a person who is just beginning to write.

—Katharine Butler Hathaway

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Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection.… Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

—Margaret Halsey

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