Libba Bray

Libba Bray
Libba Brayis an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth11 March 1964
CityMontgomery, AL
CountryUnited States of America
stoners conversation
Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
helping blushing god-help
They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.
girl boys ohio
She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.
hands two gloves
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.
ordinary opinion sucker
There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
girl want tall
You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.
fighting world littles
The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.
dream ghost inconsequential
She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
drink prohibition i-can
Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
eye thinking temptation
Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?" Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.
murder-mysteries fixed
Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.
girl sports sexy
On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear.
feminism looks doe
Does my new feminism make me look fat?
girl parent silence
Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he’s a terrible kisser to boot.” Evie’s parents stared in stunned silence. “Or so I’ve heard.