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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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

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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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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Your path will change. Your destiny doesn't.

—Lauren Miller in Parallel

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

—Henry Miller

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Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

—Georges Braque

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Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

—Steve Maraboli

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

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