Top 100 Sarah Rees Quotes
#1. I don't think he likes girls", I said. "Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn't look like a people person.
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#2. She had worried she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. She had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.
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#3. Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.
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#4. Seriously," said Kami, her voice faint. "I think I left the oven on at home. Or the iron. Possibly both.
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#5. How do you deal with it?" Kami asked Jared. "The laughing at nothing and occasionally stopping dead in your tracks."
"I have a system where when I stop, I lean casually against something," Jared told her. "It makes people think I'm a bad boy. Or possibly that I have a bad back.
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#6. I'll drive both of you," Seb offered at once.
Mae nodded at him with gratitude.
"No," Jamie said sternly. "I'm never getting into your horrible car. I promised myself that, because
it's horrible, and you're horrible. So take that!
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#7. Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
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#8. You were going into the Light city without a pass?" Ethan said. "That's a crime."
"I guess we don't know each other that well yet," Carwyn observed. "It's possibly time to talk about some of my hobbies and interests. One of my hobbies is crime.
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#9. I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or make any sudden movements, I shall die. And that'll show you." Seb shrugged in return, hiding how pleased he was pretty badly. "Fair enough.
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#10. It's Russell Montgomery the Third, actually," said Rusty, still grinning. "But I'd be obliged if you keep that bit of information to yourself."
"I don't imagine any of us cares enough to remember," Jared said.
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#11. And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave.
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#13. Nick observed the flicker of appreciation in her brown eyes. He wasn't particularly surprised. She was just the type to like them tall, dark, and carrying a lethal weapon.
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#14. Everyone all right?"
Angela nodded. Holly looked up and smiled too, her smile shakier and thus more real than Ash's. "I'm okay," she said. "I see you are too. I also see you have a weapon that is on fire."
"I'm badass like that," Kami said, putting the branch down on the cobblestones.
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#15. I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.
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#16. So this is the "smug idiot thinks he's funny" face, Kami observed. Not to be confused with other "smug idiot" variants.
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#17. He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?"
Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?"
"Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.
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#18. She was god-awfully hideous. I swear she looked like a bad-tempered mutant tomato, and she was making a sound like a cat being fed into a printer
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#19. People will come up with a hundred thousand reasons why other people do not count as human, but that does not mean anyone has to listen.
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#20. I just think demons are terribly interesting! In Sumerian times, demons weren't seen as evil at all, just as incredibly powerful and very different from us: beings made of fire, when humans were made of earth.
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#21. Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.
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#22. Get down,' he whispered.
'I'm way ahead of you,' Jamie said from the floor.
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#23. What on earth is happening? asked a witness to these events (Rusty Montgomery, age 20, who insisted on not remaining anonymous and also wished this paper to record the fact that he is single).
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#24. Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?"
Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.
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#25. Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.
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#26. I only date college guys."
"You don't know any college guys," Kami pointed out.
Angela's gaze went to Kami, and she smiled. "Which leaves me with more time for napping.
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#27. Lillian's face went white and her eyes looked blind as a creature's that had lived underground all its life and only now emerged into the horror of the sun.
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#28. There's a card up in your little sweetshop advertising Pomeranian cross puppies free to a good home," he observed. "What's your point?" "I'm not a puppy, you can't give me away.
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#29. Enough, she thought, enough, enough: nobody was allowed to make her this unhappy. She didn't have to stay around him, any more than she had to keep her hand in a fire.
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#30. Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!
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#31. Anyone would love him, but I do not know if anyone could love him as much as I do.
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#32. A green girl in the woods just kissed me," he announced furiously. "What is wrong with the world?
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#33. That Kami Glass, people must say as she went by. About as sexy as a teapot.
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#34. What's going on with you? Jared asked out of the blue.
Beginning a new era of journalistic history, Kami told him, sending her cheer through their connection. Also, to be perfectly honest, Angela and I were slapping our asses.
As one does.
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#35. If I could choose where to go, " Carwyn resumed, as if I had not spoken at all. "If I could go anywhere in the world, I'd want to go with you. I don't want to be where it's safe. I want to be where you are.
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#36. There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.
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#37. He had talked to her the same way when her grandmother died. Even though that had been different, had been an ordinary tragedy.
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#38. He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of pentragrams and crystals. Right now she was also wearing giant chandelier earings and a violent pink T-Shirt that bore the words ROMEO AND JULIET WOULDN'T HAVE LASTED.
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#39. Kami has to give him points for being mature. He looked at her, blue eyes earnest, and she had to give him many more points for being charming.
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#40. My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
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#42. She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.
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#43. I wish all the sorcerers in the world had just one throat," Angela announced. "So I could punch them in it.
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#45. When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me."
"You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.
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#46. Lillian walked into every room as if she owned it. She walked across this one as if she owned it but was slightly horrified to find herself there, like a queen in a basement.
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#47. People always hate those they rely on. I should know. As Mark spoke, I held his hand fast, leaned against him, smiled for the cameras in the circle of his protection, and I could not imagine hating anyone more.
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#48. You're crazy," said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school.
"They said that about all the great visionaries."
"You know who else they said it about?" Angela demanded. "All the actual crazy people.
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#49. Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.
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#50. I tend to get over-excited and very, very loud. I rein myself in when people flinch and dogs start howling.
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#51. Jon Glass had vaulted over the fence and was now approaching a horse chosen by some sort of weird horse-knowledge method, or possibly because it was shiny.
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#52. Every time he touched her, the touch felt new, like something they had just invented together.
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#53. Lillian looked around the room.
"Where are the others? The Prescott girl and the good-looking one?"
"Baby," said Rusty, "I'm right here.
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#54. I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh
so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.
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#55. My current verdict would be: Crazy Eyes. Nice Ass."
"I think I want that on my tombstone.
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#56. I call people 'petal' all the time. My postman is very confused by this.
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#57. Kami wondered if she should count it as a victory that he did not seem to be actively attempting to foil her plan of going out with him. Of course, he wasn't actively participating in it either, so maybe it was a draw.
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#58. He doesn't have to talk nonsense in a whisper in your ear," Jared said. "As opposed to talking nonsense in a whisper in my brain?" Kami asked.
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#59. I saw now how different the same features could seem when they were illuminated by different spirit.
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#60. The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.
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#61. He was naturally kind, she was starting to realize, which was better than being charming.
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#62. Well, what do you think you're doing, then? Spying?"
"I told you, it's the unfortunate hotness of evil. Hotness that burns like the flames of cute, cute hell." Rusty placed his hand on his heart. "But like I said, don't worry. I will overcome temptation, no matter how temptacious.
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#63. Jared glanced at Dad, then back at Kami, and said, "I'll call you later."
You have never called me once in the entirety of your life, said Kami. I'll talk to you in a few minutes.
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#64. Angela looked fondly reminiscent. We've had some good times together, haven't we? I'll always remember them. After you go away.
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#65. I bet he also didn't mention that I stick pins into the eyes of everybody who annoys me. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is the man who was wise enough to only annoy me once.
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#66. An icon didn't do anything of its own volition. A symbol didn't act of its own accord. Both cities projected what they wanted onto me, and wanted me to stay still as they did it.
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#67. Kami got to school the next day without any incidents like being kidnapped by pirates or having the earth open up and swallow her, which on the whole Kami thought was a pity.
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#69. Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.
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#70. She'd felt like being nice cost her something, even if it was just feeling a little bit lesser, every time she smiled without meaning to.
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#72. Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.
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#73. I wanted to talk," he said.
"I don't want to talk," said Jared. "And I won't want to talk. Ever."
"Can we just - "
"Talk?" Jared asked. "All right, if you insist. Let's talk about the many definitions of the word no.
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#74. I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
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#75. You're bad at climbing trees," Tomo whispered.
"I'm bad at climbing trees when I'm on fire, yes," Kami said. "Not my sport.
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#76. Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren't even real. All I ever wanted was you.
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#77. I did not matter what distant iron city had raised him. He had been made by Sorry-in-the-Vale, his bones as much a part of it as the valley and the woods. It was as if she had the whole town spread underneath her. Or the whole world, since right then he was the only part of it that mattered.
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#78. I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
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#80. Your timing is amazing," Kami told him. "By which I mean, I am amazed by it.
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#81. Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking."
"That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror.
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#82. Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.
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#83. Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come? I'll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches.
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#84. Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.
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#85. I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.
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#86. It's the family motto," Ash said.
"Don't tell me, let me guess," Kami said, since Ash showed no signs of telling her. "Your motto is 'Blonds really do have more fun.' "
Another Lynburn motto possibility, if her mother was to be believed, was "Hot Blond Death.
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#87. Jared felt vaguely unsettled that she'd noticed. He wasn't used to adults scrutinizing his behavior. He hadn't meant to take take so many booksbut they were the kind he liked, about made-up olden days when the world made sense, about death and love and honor.
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#88. I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you."
Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing.
Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh.
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#89. When Kami jumped over a style, he looked like he's never seen one before.
"I have never seen one before," Jared said.
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#90. Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My arms feel all floppy, like flightless wings. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I looked like a very sad penguin.
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#91. I'm sorry about your face." Jamie looked over his shoulder, and touched the demon's mark crawling along his jaw with the back of his hand. "Sorry about saving all our lives by doing something you had to do?" "Oh no," Nick said blandly. "I just meant, you know. Generally.
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#92. You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered.
"I know her," Ash said in a low voice.
"I can't ... hurt someone I know.
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#93. Torture at night, human sacrifice in the morning, healthy exercise at noon. What could possibly be on the schedule for the evening?
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#94. I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.
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#95. What are you doing?
Talking about hot guys, Kami informed him.
Jared said, Oh my God.
You did ask.
It's a topic of absorbing interest, Jared said. I'm sure. Obviously, as a hot guy myself, I wouldn't know.
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#96. Nick subjected him to a long, judgmental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.
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#97. I cannot possibly borrow underclothes from Holly and Angela. Bras especially."
"I know," said Jared.
"Oh, you do, do you?" Kami inquired. "And how do you know, may I ask?"
There was a slight flush along the lines of Jared's cheekbones. "Observation.
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#99. I'm not doing much, said Jared, warm in her mind, the amusement lingering. Just stuck in an elevator with this creepy Asian girl giving me a death glare.
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