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A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray
“What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly.
Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl and offers us the grapes to devour. 'You must try to correct it.'
'But what if it鈥檚 too late? What if you can鈥檛?'
There's a sad sympathy in Miss Moore's catlike eyes as she regards my painting again. She paints the thinnest sliver of shadow along the bottom of the apple, bringing it fully to life.
'Then you must find a way to live with it.”
Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray
“Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once upon a time there were four girls. One was pretty. One was clever. One charming, and one...one was mysterious. But they were all damaged, you see. Something not right about the lot of them. Bad blood. Big dreams. Oh, I left that part out. Sorry, that should have come before. They were all dreamers, these girls. One by one, night after night, the girls came together. And they sinned. Do you know what that sin was? No one? Pippa? Ann? Their sin was that they believed. Believed they could be different. Special. They believed they could change what they were--damaged, unloved. Cast-off things. They would be alive, adored, needed. Necessary. But it wasn't true. This is a ghost story remember? A tragedy. They were misled. Betrayed by their own stupid hopes. Things couldn't be different for them, because they weren't special after all. So life took them, led them, and they went along, you see? They faded before their own eyes, till they were nothing more than living ghosts, haunting each other with what could be. With what can't be. There, now. Isn't that the scariest story you've ever heard?”
Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray
“Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”
Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty


Reading Progress

May 14, 2009 – Shelved
July 20, 2009 –
page 25
6.2% "I am always wary of making the mistake Gemma made. I try always to part with kind words. Unfortunately, I fall short sometimes."
July 20, 2009 –
page 197
48.88% "This book has some very unexpected twist. I like it very much."
Started Reading
July 21, 2009 –
page 416
100% "This book was really amazing. I cannot wait to read the next."
July 21, 2009 – Finished Reading
February 25, 2010 – Shelved as: fantasy

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