Of course no one accused the old woman of being a witch. But she was foreign. Her words percolated up the tunnel of her throat , espresso-thick and strong. Bad weather had eroded her face. Some believed that the sun had crisped her skin into coriaceous pleats. Others blamed the chaw of a wintry climate. No one knew where she came from, though lots of people privately thought that perhaps she ought to go back.


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LIBBA BRAY
I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance ...
LIBBA BRAY
Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the...
LIBBA BRAY
Oh, hello," Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. "Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself...
LIBBA BRAY
Now, the physical part, I don't know. He hasn't shown that aggressiveness when he goes to hit you.
CRAIG BRAY
I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what...
LIBBA BRAY
Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, ...
LIBBA BRAY
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, t...
LIBBA BRAY
What did I do to make Mommy leave?”
“You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.”<...
LIBBA BRAY
I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like th...
LIBBA BRAY
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you'...
LIBBA BRAY
Truth casts a spell of its own.
LIBBA BRAY
I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's f...
LIBBA BRAY
Write like it matters, and it will.
LIBBA BRAY
She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right....
LIBBA BRAY
Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
LIBBA BRAY
Mom's crying a bit, quietly, the way she always does. She never utters a sound even when she's cryin...
LIBBA BRAY
Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
LIBBA BRAY
You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around ...
LIBBA BRAY
The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.
LIBBA BRAY
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of...
LIBBA BRAY
What frightens you?
What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch ...
LIBBA BRAY
I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.
LIBBA BRAY
The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
LIBBA BRAY
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
LIBBA BRAY
To those who will see, the world waits.
LIBBA BRAY
They taught me a lot. I was brought up through the system by the seniors. I've played all four years...
JAQUAN BRAY
It's difficult to still score with double-teams and box-and-ones, but it's just another test for me....
JAQUAN BRAY
Last year, I didn't do much scoring, because we had people like Leonard, Sean Glenn and J.P, but I k...
JAQUAN BRAY
It was something I looked forward to. I knew what I was coming into. I knew we lost nine seniors. I ...
JAQUAN BRAY
We do very little, including hiring staff, without involving young people in the process.
JANICE BRAY
We haven't even begun to look at structures yet.
JANICE BRAY
Rather than threats, I'm looking at opportunities.
JANICE BRAY
It's similar to going through a death. I'm just saddened. September will never be the same in this t...
JAYNE BRAY
Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries ...
LIBBA BRAY
As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a carto...
LIBBA BRAY
As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions abou...
LIBBA BRAY
What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-...
LIBBA BRAY
It is difficult to have a high level of confidence about where the cell phone market is going to be ...
JEFF BRAY
People are comfortable that handset volume can grow at high single-digit rates for the next few year...
JEFF BRAY
Didn't think there could be anything worse until now.
JEFF BRAY
Indian gaming, I don't regard it as a competitive industry. Anything that helps the tribe become sel...
JEFF BRAY
The tribe is excited to get this project going. We find it's something the public is looking for.
JEFF BRAY
You can't exactly take all the phones and dump them into the ocean. The longer the phones are sittin...
JEFF BRAY
The question is whether there is a next generation of the Media Center to make it more integrated wi...
JEFF BRAY
The key is going to be bringing the cost of the phones down. They're probably not going to be cheap ...
JEFF BRAY
You're perfect just the way you are...is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.
LIBBA BRAY
These are things that need to be dealt with, because in the final analysis, if we surrender our prec...
MAHDI BRAY