Yesterday, I met Libba Bray

And basically, I don’t use the phrase “perfect human being” very often, but Libba is getting very close.

She was incredibly nice and quirky and hilarious, but what I love most is that she mentioned how very lacking YA literature is in racial/cultural diversity. 
I nearly burst into tears of joy.
The panel was talking about the “renaissance” in YA fiction and everyone was going on about how many great books have been released lately and e-books and such, and Libba agreed with it all, but added that “I think the only thing we need more of, although we have made some strides, is diversity.” (Or something to that effect.)

AND THEN 
she spoke out against the war on women—something along the lines of “trans-vaginal wanding isn’t just my drag name anymore” and “young women, let me tell you… if you’re not scared, you should be.”

It’s still relatively early in the year, so I feel okay saying that what I’m most looking forward to in 2012 is the release of Libba Bray’s The Diviners.

I’m not sure if there’s even an official release date because some places say September and other November and so on. 

Also, it seems that the cover was released in February. 
What? How did I not hear about this? I’ve spent a few minutes squinting at it because I can’t figure out if it’s real or not; I feel that Libba would’ve posted about it on LJ or tweeted about it or something.
 

Anyway, I know it’s greedy of me, but I just want it noooooow.

“And what, pray, have you done to better the lot of others? You call each other sisters, but are we all not sisters? The seamstress ruining her eyesight to keep her children in porridge? The suffragists fighting for the vote? The girls younger than I who would ask for a living wage, whose working conditions are so deplorable they were locked in a burning factory? They could make use of your precious help. It is daunting to be a woman in any world. What good does our power do us when it must be kept secret?”

The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray. (via butiloveyouinyourfuck-mepumps)

Possible reference to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire? Honestly, Libba is part of the reason I’m a feminist. 

(Source: hersunkendream)

fuckyeahgemmadoyletrilogy: But people can be cursed, can’t they? They could have something, an affliction, that’s beyond their control. Couldn’t they? - Pippa Cross

fuckyeahgemmadoyletrilogy:

But people can be cursed, can’t they? They could have something, an affliction, that’s beyond their control. Couldn’t they? - Pippa Cross

dreamergirly: Where has the time gone…

dreamergirly:

Where has the time gone…

“In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.”
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (via pretendings)
“858. “I’ve always been so irritated when Pippa opens her mouth, I haven’t stopped to think she may babble on because she’s afraid she won’t be heard. I vow to give her that chance from now on.”
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Bray 284 (via bookquoter)
“But forgiveness…I’ll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there’s an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)

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