Libba Bray Believe Quotations

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens

And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.