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“And he did not want to be loved as a second choice, as a surrender. He had spent his whole life not being loved at all, and he had thought being loved enough would satisfy him. It would not. He did not want to be loved enough. He wanted to be loved overwhelmingly. He had never been chosen, so he had never had a chance to know this about himself before now: he wanted to be chosen first.” (In Other Lands Quotes)
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Books rose to the ceiling, which rose to a point, with ladders that leaned against the walls.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Elliot finished his book in bed and pondered going to get another one. He only had so much time left, and he had so many books to get through.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Elliot was trying to teach himself trollish via a two-hundred-year-old book by a man who’d had a traumatic break-up with a troll. This meant a lot of commentary along the lines of “This is how trolls say I love you!”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Even if you found yourself in a magical story, there were no guarantees that you were the hero, or that you would get the things you dreamed of. Elliot knew no way, being who he was, to deserve that.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Everyone else noticed him. Nobody could help but notice him. He didn’t know how to get people to love him, but he knew how to bang on the door of people’s attention, lean on their bell until they answered in the vain hope he would go away. He knew how to be inescapably irritating. But the one person he had learned it for was the one person it didn’t work on.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“I am not winning any arguments because I know how to hurt someone. How does that prove that you’re right? How does being stronger or more vicious prove anything, except that all this talk about honor is stupid? Where’s the honor in being better at hurting somebody? Telling me I have to do this is insulting, as if I can’t win any other way. As if I can’t win in a better way.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“I do not know if you are not interested, or protecting yourself, but you cannot guard yourself against the whole world. You only succeed in placing a barrier between yourself from the world.” He hesitated. “I know that from personal experience.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“I don’t need you to explain to me the concept of a magical land filled with fantastic creatures that only certain special children can enter. I am acquainted with the last several centuries of popular culture. There are books. And cartoons, for the illiterate.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“I don’t like wizard stories all that much. Stories about witches are better, because witches are morally ambiguous and traditionally disempowered.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Keeping everything very cool and professional, I see, Cadet,” remarked Commander Woodsinger as he went by. Elliot did not know why the two most important women in his life had to be deadpan snarkers.” (In Other Lands Quotes)
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Magic lands in books had always seemed close to nature, but in a nice way, without all the unpleasant details.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“The code of not telling tales was the usual stuff where stronger people tried to impose their rules on weaker people so they could get away with everything.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“The most annoying thing, perhaps, was that the elven troop were obviously good people and were being kind to them, and yet Elliot felt subtly wrong-footed at every turn. He wondered if this was how Serene felt all the time, and he promised himself to bear it as well as she did.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“There isn’t any kind of relationship that’s all problem-free delightful unicorns. You can’t have a relationship without issues and prejudices. The way to be equals is if both people agree to be equals, and treat themselves and each other as equals, despite all that.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Violence was like that, Elliot had noticed. One move toward it and all at once everything was allowed: anyone could be hurt, out of a mix of pride and anger and stupid disregard for the fact that you could be hurt as easily as someone else.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“You do not have any masculine attributes that could be compared to other men’s: it would be ridiculous if you did, since you could have only the most minuscule difference between one man’s attribute and the other.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“You should wear whatever clothing you feel most comfortable in. Being comfortable in yourself is the best way to be attractive to others.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
