Libba Bray

"I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be."

"But we can't go back. We can only go forward."

"I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop."

"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: …"

"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 re…"

"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 …"

"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."

"I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest."