“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.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won’t eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don’t know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for no reason at all.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“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.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“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: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“You've influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one day you wanted to beat the crap out of somebody but you didn't. You made a painting instead.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“I can be whatever.
You can be whatever.
We can be whatever.
Whatever, together.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.'
- 'Ready for what?'
- He smiles big. 'Exactly.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“Dammit!"
"What?" Gonzo sounds panicked.
"We're out of gas."
"You're Shithenging me."
"I Shithenge you not.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the building block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds. ”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“To live is to love, to love is to live.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
“There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!”
― Libba Bray, quote from Going Bovine
Libba Bray
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“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from King Henry IV, Part 1
“I think the important thing to remember is that all relationships benefit from a bit of breathing room. Especially friendships. It's only when you find yourself without the women who understand you that you realize there are very few women who will.”
― Megan Crane, quote from Frenemies
“If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.”
― Alan Sillitoe, quote from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
“We lived in Bombay and we lived in Mumbai and sometimes, I lived in both of them at the same time.”
― Suketu Mehta, quote from Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
“They had thought him such a 'good' man. They should have learned it was dangerous to trust appearances or take strangers at their word in this shit-hole world.”
― John Jakes, quote from Heaven and Hell
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