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Quotes from Going Bovine — Libba Bray

born 1964 United States

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People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really.

Going Bovine (2009)

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.

Going Bovine (2009)

Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime.

Going Bovine (2009)

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die." He winks. "But not without one hell of a fight.”

Going Bovine (2009)

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.

Going Bovine (2009)

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

Going Bovine (2009)

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.

Going Bovine (2009)

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.

Going Bovine (2009)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Libba Bray (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.