Brakebills Alumni Quotes

#1. I like to paint nudes mostly.

Cleo Moore

#2. Embalming was like ... I don't know how to describe it. It was like playing with a giant doll, dressing it and bathing it and opening it up to see what was inside.

Dan Wells

#3. There's always that moment on every movie where you just go, 'Okay, this is that moment. I'm about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.'

Johnny Depp

#4. I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

Kacy Catanzaro

#5. Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity.

Jan Hus

#6. To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.

Beth Orton

#7. hard-scraping tools, with his sharp-featured face and the mirthless dark eyes that seemed always, whenever

Susanna Kearsley

#8. Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, "So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?"
Clary thought of the male faerie's torn-open ribs and shuddered. "Nothing that pleasant.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Honore De Balzac

#10. I'm going to check on you in the night," he said. "At random intervals of my choosing."
"I figured.

Sara Zarr