Top 100 Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
#1. They?" he said, sounding apprehensive.
"Me. They're like me."
"Don't be a jackass," Roswell said, but not meanly. "No one's like you.
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#2. Look, you don't want to put the power in the hands of the people, okay? You're just going to get three hundred write-in votes for My Dick.
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#3. It seemed to me that some things were ugly enough that fixing them was worth trespassing.
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#4. I want to be still and small, and not have to man up or act like everything's okay, but the thing about living in a house where someone is sick is, it's like they have a monopoly on it. If one person is always needing things , then no one else is really allowed to.
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#6. But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.
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#7. Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she'd rather die than go back to a man she didn't love.
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#8. I'm not about love, but in this moment, I wish that I were.
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#9. He sighs, smiling a resigned little smile. "Waverly, you make me want to die, but it's in the best way. You have no idea.
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#10. Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.
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#11. The effectiveness of your persona is inversely proportional to what people know about you.
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#12. Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people's misery. They lie when it suits them and don't see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don't have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.
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#13. When you name something, you take away some of it's power. It becomes known
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#15. The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.
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#16. It's not luck, Waverly. I mean yeah, to find someone who really gets you, maybe that's luck, but if you treat people like they matter, they remember it.
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#17. Ariel is capable of whispering the same way a toaster is capable of flight.
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#18. All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.
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#19. God, I hate her!" Kelly shouts as soon as Connor and his mom are out of the store. "How did that wretched, wretched woman ever even find someone to procreate with?
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#20. Take your necklace off."
"Why?"
"Because if you don't, I can't kiss you.
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#21. There was a whole, sprawling world underneath us, filled with ugly, vicious, beautiful people. The line between the two places was thin, hardly a separation, and both ran on pain and blood and fear and death and joy and music.
But for now, the sunset was enough.
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#22. The last time I was this close to him, it was a commotion of touching. His hands, picking apart the rigid panels of my exoskeleton. His mouth, finding mine with the certainty of a meteor.
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#23. For the past month and a half, it's been inanely hot every single day. Someone's bound to feel a little homicidal now and then.
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#24. He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.
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#25. Goodbye," she said.
When I didn't say it back, she rested her hand on the top of my head. The weight was strange and gentle. "I love you," she said. "And when I tell you goodbye, I don't mean forever or for long. Just that I'm going home now, and so are you.
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#26. When you love someone, sometimes it means that they strip you down, peel you open, and you have to let them and not worry about how much it's going to hurt.
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#27. I stand in front of him, trying to figure out how to look friendly or normal and where to put my hands ... It seems ridiculous suddenly that people have hands and no place to put them.
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#28. We sat on the picnic bench, not talking, not looking at each other, but being quiet and okay. The rain was almost gone, nothing but a thin chilly fog. For now, I just wanted to sit on the picnic bench with him and not be anything but fine and uncomplicated.
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#30. It's not the wisest thing - love - but when it happens, there's not a lot you can do to stop it. Sometimes you just have to soldier on through.
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#31. The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.
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#32. You asked me about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to be anywhere but with you.
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#33. From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.
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#34. You have to think about your options, weigh the consequences before you make decisions, but the advice was so worthless when it came to the things that mattered.
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#35. All the things are want are hard to find the words for.
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#36. I get out my hairbrush and wish for her - the real Lillian, and not the worst, most selfish parts of her. I wish for a warm, true best friend, one who didn't die.
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#37. It was completely unshocking that there were monsters in the world, secret
rituals and underground burrows filled with the dead, when in my own way, I was secret and sort of monstrous too. It just didn't show in the same way.
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#38. ...and when I pretended to Portia or myself that the dark stuff couldn't touch me, that was a lie.
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#39. What's up?' he said, like the church was always burning down and I always called him on a school night, telling him to come over after dark and bring a shovel.
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#40. I'm scared to disturb the balance, though- that delicate equilibrium. Marshall and I can only exist in the narrow spaces where I'm not me and he is not him.
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#41. Back the, my life was mostly pieces-tire swings and lemonade, dogwood petals drifting down and going brown in the grass. Cotton dresses, bedsheets flapping on the line. An acre of front porch. A year of hopscotch rhymes.
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#42. The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.
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#43. I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.
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#44. You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.
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#45. Sometimes this was just the way the game ended. Sometimes you did your best, and it all went straight to hell anyway.
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#46. Whatever they said, whatever they told you about yourself, it's not true
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#47. Lillian laughs and rolls her eyes. Do I look like I know the answer to that? I always just locked on to the target and then followed it all the way down.
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#48. I just want that, the way I feel when you kiss me. Just having it makes all the bad things better.
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#49. On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the same thing.
But it didn't matter how pretty you painted the world.
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#50. The thought of him is electric, beating in my chest like a birthday wish, dark and warm and secret.
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#51. Why?" I say, so quietly that it comes out sounding like a tiny, tired sigh.
"Nobody wants to be mediocre." Her shadow on the ceiling is monstrous, a witch in profile.
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#52. Love is when you care more about something else than you do about yourself.
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#53. The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.
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#54. I was too little to think a miracle could be anything but good.
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#55. Even in that black dress, even in the dark, Waverly was the brightest thing in the gym.
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#56. We're literal people, you and me. Whatever the most obvious interpretation is, that's our truth.
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#57. Callie glances over her shoulder. She's younger than me, but aggressively put together, with curled hair and heavy lipstick.
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#58. Lillian was always so good at treating everything like a test, like some kind of game where the prize was shiny and untouchable. Perfection. She wanted me to back off, butt out, stop trying to control her life. And she wanted me to save her.
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#60. Their lead guitar sounded like what would happen if someone wedged a traffic accident into a blender.
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#61. Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it.
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#62. Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll say we're ghosts, angels, demons, elemental spirits, and giving us a name doesn't help anybody. When did a name change what someone is?
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#64. People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
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#65. I didn't know how to respond to that. There was something disturbing about being responsible for partially decayed girls going swimming.
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#66. When I press my forehead to his back, the shape of his pain is alluring, almost visible. It forms him, tells him to protect himself, makes him everything he is. He needs to keep it.
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#67. It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.
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#68. Thinking of this friend I had. This friend I loved and keep loving
dead, but never really gone.
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#69. I have never seen two people so in love, and so completely untouchable.
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#71. Fisher twined his fingers with mine and when he did, the feeling was the best thing in the world, like it was always better to be this tangled up, to always have a piece of each other.
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#72. Her smile doesn't look any more real than mine. I wonder if she has to practice too.
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#73. Don't you ever just have those days where even if you don't really like someone, you might as well hang out with them because right then, it's better than being alone?
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#74. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, and the one constant law of the world was that it would heal.
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#75. I still can't picture what he does in his every day life when he's not busy with school or misdemeanors or me.
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#76. What kind of people?
The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark and the dust of abandoned strip mines. But none of that was the whole truth. They were more than that. - page 135
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#77. All I want is for you to stand here and watch the people you love be horribly mutilated. Is that too much to ask?
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#78. The tone of his voice is like he expects a fight, like he's challenging me to disagree, and I want to tell him that I don't care one way or the other. That her blood-relative status makes no difference as long as she loves him. And she does. She wears it, beaming it around like a neon sign.
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#79. The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.
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#80. I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.
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#81. I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore.
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#82. Sometimes it doesn't matter how dark the world gets. You can be saved by the smallest thing.
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#83. He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop existing.
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#84. Truman Flynn is a piece of paper in my coat pocket. He is a memory of water and of loss, his hand sliding free from mine, no way to hold on.
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#85. His eyes were softer now. When he smiled, the shape of his mouth made my blood go hot.
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#86. ...the pain of loss would bet better eventually...It didn't get better, it just go different.
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#87. The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge of his nose against mine, his breath burning the back of my throat. His voice was rough and furious. 'Fool me twice, and I will cut out your fucking throat.
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#88. That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.
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#89. The sound of her voice was painful. She screamed, sobbed, whispered Hallelujah. But she never sang it.
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#90. I'd laughed this high-pitched, witchy laugh, and looked right at him. Mostly, I remember feeling vital and untouchable, like I was free and separate from him. I would never be him, and because of that, I would never be lonely or laughed at, and I would never have to worry about anything.
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#92. You can't keep acting like this," Lillian says, and for the first time in months, it's like she's actually trying to be nice. "Tragedy isn't this evil thing that came from outer space. It's just there, you know. Along with everything else.
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#93. He knew how useless words could be. How even when you wanted more than anything just to hear someone say they understood, it didn't make you feel better. Not really.
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#94. All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.
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#95. I thought he made me a different person altogether, but maybe I was always holding those pieces inside me, waiting for a chance to use them.
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#96. Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.
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#97. Is it hypocritical to love a person and still find fault with their actions?
-The Morrigan
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#98. Because the truth is that if everyone's special all the time, then really, no one's special, so maybe all that's left is just to be perfect, because at least that's something you can measure.
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#99. The way he's looking at me is like I'm the only beating heart in the world.
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#100. Intent matters. If you believe you're charmed, capable, likable, popular, then you are.
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