Libba Bray: Цитаты на английском языке
“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
Источник: The Sweet Far Thing
“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
Источник: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.”
Источник: Rebel Angels
“Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.”
Источник: Going Bovine (2009), p. 338
Контексте: Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.
I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.
Источник: Going Bovine (2009), p. 428
Контексте: In our travels, we have come across many equations — math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.
“People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really.”
Источник: Going Bovine (2009), p. 178
Контексте: 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 fucked up and sad for no reason at all.
“My favorite word is "redemption." I like both its meaning and the sound.”
Twenty-One Things You Don't Know About Me
Контексте: My favorite word is "redemption." I like both its meaning and the sound. My least favorite word is "maybe." "Maybe" is almost always a "no" drawn out in cruel fashion.
Источник: Going Bovine (2009), p. 389
Контексте: Marisol does a silly dance with Balder and the screw, one in each hand, so that nobody gets the idea that she takes tins — or anything else, for that matter — seriously. And just like that, something in the cosmos shifts. A butterfly flaps its wings in South America. Snow falls in Chicago. You give an idiot a stupid magic screw and it turns out to be a necessary part after all.
“You’ve been assigned an identity since birth.”
Источник: Going Bovine (2009), p. 253
Контексте: You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
“But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”
Вариант: One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
Источник: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
Источник: The Sweet Far Thing