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When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Libba Bray
Family, Home, Guilt

What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?

Libba Bray
Memories, Home, Dark
Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.

Libba Bray
Home, Squares, Doe

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

Libba Bray
Grief, Home, Waiting

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

Libba Bray
Home, Corporations, Pants
Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.375, Scholastic Inc.

We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?

Libba Bray
Dream, Home, Land
Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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