"I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it."

“Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!”

“If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.”

“It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the basic assumptions of the scientific world-view? That the variety of events that surrounds us is held together by a deeper unity.”

“London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.”

“The money players are on these days is immoral, but you can't knock it”

“Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and its broad range of emotional context that can't be transformed into food for the imagination.”

“And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.”

Source : Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.212, Delacorte Press

“I want to win football games.”