Libba Bray Quotes

I spent a lot of my life afraid as a kid, even throughout high school.

I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse bun, rancid teeth, wrinkly frown, pursed mouth and all, sailing around the world under cover of darkness pleased to be the bearer of ill tidings, carrying a basket of rotten eggs, and knowing- as the sun comes up- exactly where to drop them. On me, for one.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

I actually live right near a high school and I always walk by...I live in a high school. I actually live in the boiler room of a high school at night. When I see high school guys now I'm actually like, 'Thank f - king God I'm not in high school anymore because they look like they could kick the living s - t out of me.'

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

One girl used to call me Brownie and tell me to go back to my own country. At lunch, I'd get a bag of chips from the vending machine and eat it in the storage room so I wouldn't have to see her.

Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.

Anxiety is your creativity turned into a weapon that you use to beat yourself up. And this is because anxiety is mostly storytelling - repeating poisonous stories that you've inherited from others. It feeds on your fear.

There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

In my past 20 years of interaction with girls across the world I have found that girls live in fear and anxiety while growing up.

High school was difficult for me because I was in the thick of dealing with my depression and anxiety.