Libba Bray Quotes About Dying

• I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

  Libba Bray

  Eye, Gentleman, Dying

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• Todo el mundo se está muriendo. Un poco, cada día. Haz que cuente.

  Libba Bray

  Dying, Littles, Make It Count

• All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

  Libba Bray

  Simple, Dying, Defense

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

• All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

  Libba Bray

  Morning, Prayer, Simple

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

• Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall live. It's one lump of sugar in your tea whether you like it or not and you'd best smile even if you're dying deep inside. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead. Please, please, please, Gemma, let's not die inside before we have to.

  Libba Bray

  Horse, Mean, Tea

• I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

  Libba Bray

  Thinking, Dying, Because I Can

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.240, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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