Sarah Rees Brennan
Sarah Rees Brennan is an Irish writer best known for young adult fantasy fiction. Her first novel, The Demon’s Lexicon, was released June 2009 by Simon & Schuster. Rees Brennan’s books are bestsellers in the UK. (Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes)
“A riddle wrapped up in an enigma, wrapped up in a giant pain in the ass. Well done, Kami.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“And other people hurt you. And you were both angry, and maybe you were both scared, but no matter what dark thoughts you have you didn’t hurt her. Someone else hurt her. Don’t waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.” “Can we get that last thing embroidered on a cushion, Aunt Lillian?” Jared asked.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“And she realized that she still wanted Jared when all thoughts of passion were dead, when other consolation seemed like a cruel joke — that she wanted to be with him when the thought of being with anyone else was unbearable, when the thought of someone else touching her made her want to scream.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy…)”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“Anyone would love him, but I do not know if anyone could love him as much as I do.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“Ash and Rusty were both objectively better-looking than he was; she remembered knowing that, even though it no longer felt true.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“Ash made a tentative hand-waving ‘what he says may be true but please don’t think I have transformed into a violent lunatic’ gesture.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Been chatting much with Jared?” “We often have special moments where I come into a room and he immediately leaves,” Kami said. “I treasure those times.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Being able to depend on someone doesn’t mean you’re dependent on them.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Being with you is the only definition of happiness I have.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“Books rose to the ceiling, which rose to a point, with ladders that leaned against the walls.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Bros before hoes,” said Jared. “By which of course I mean gardening tools, because I hold all the fine ladies of Sorry-in-the-Vale in the highest regard.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“But one day, I’m going to beat Seiji in a match. Then he’ll beat me in another one. Then I’ll beat him twice in a row. It’s gonna be great. I don’t care how many times I lose. Well… I care, but it doesn’t matter. I know I’ll win a match against him one day.” (Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes)
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Disarmed
“Dad has never hit Harvey, and he’s not going to. If Dad beat Tommy to death and then raised a hand to Harvey, Tommy would rise from his grave to catch it.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Season of the Witch
“Don’t waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“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
“Every time he touched her, the touch felt new, like something they had just invented together.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“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
“Fear’s useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn’t: If it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you’ve wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Lexicon
“Friends don’t menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“Good practice, everyone,” Rusty said at last. “Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I think I need a rabies shot, but them’s the breaks.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Happiness is self-sabotage, a mean trick that your own mind plays on you. It makes you careless, makes you lose your grip and once you lose your grip, you lose everything. You certainly aren’t happy anymore.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“He had called girls to him before. There was nothing so easy whether you were walking into a classroom, a club, or down the street. All you had to do was send out the right signals, give her the right look, turn your body the right way, and never for a moment let it cross your mind that she might not be interested.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Lexicon
“He had talked to her the same way when her grandmother died. Even though that had been different, had been an ordinary tragedy.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“He was always part of her thoughts, and now that he was real, he was inescapably part of her life, but it was as she had told her mother: saying he was part of her or that they were more than friends sounded like love, but it seemed like loss as well. All the words she knew to describe what he was to her were from love stories and love songs, but those were not words anyone truly meant.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“He was naturally kind, she was starting to realize, which was better than being charming.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“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 am so sad about my underwear,” Kami announced, and Ash looked as if he regretted all of his life decisions.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“I am utterly in love with you. I’ve been in love with you all my whole life. I’ve been in love with you your whole life. I don’t know how to live without being in love with you, and I don’t want to know.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“I believe you should start as you mean to go on, so I was born gorgeous, Aiden wrote.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Striking Distance
“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 have deal breakers,” Alan said. “I look on tempests, and am never shaken.” (Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes)
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“I don’t have your way with words “Sin said. “So I’m just going to go with a quick response.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“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
“I don’t look at anyone else like that. I don’t think about anyone else the way I think about you.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“I don’t mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I’m a dream ruiner.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“I don’t think about anyone else the way I think about you.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“I don’t think you’re weak,” Jared said. “I want to guard you because you are important to me. Because you are – God, this is going to sound so stupid, I can never think of a way to say it – you are precious. I can never think of how to describe the value you have to me, because all the words for value suggest that you belong to me, and you don’t.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“I don’t trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn’t the same as being good.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“I hate this, I want this to stop, how are we supposed to live with this, and how am I supposed to walk away? You’re real and I hate you for it.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Lexicon
“I hear girls like bad boys. I hope that’s true. Because, baby, I’m bad at practically everything.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things,” Kami said. “Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours’ gardens and remarking ‘My, that’s a good-looking scarecrow’ to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“I know there is nothing between us and there never could be. But I would do whatever you asked. I would do anything you want. If I had anything worth giving to you, I would give it. If I had anything to sacrifice, I would sacrifice it for you.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“I read books, but I do it because I want to – because it’s like an escape in my head, like being with you.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“I said once that my idea of happiness is to always be with you, and it is. I’m always going to think of you as the source of everything. To me, the sun rises and sets on you. You make all things true. I am in love with you, and I cannot imagine being in love with anyone else. It would be like becoming someone else. Your name was the first word for love I ever knew.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“I saw now how different the same features could seem when they were illuminated by different spirit.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“I saw strangers’ faces passing me, a brief sympathetic glance, a wolf whistle from a car at the soaking-wet girl. No help was to be found anywhere: the city at night moved pitilessly on.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“I suppose some were born acting, some achieve action, and some have action thrust upon while they wail feebly ‘Dear God, no, let me sleep in.’ I’m only acting once, and then never again.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“I thought you would like a weapon better than a rescue.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“I truly cannot imagine why your painfully literal milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, said Aiden, but work with what you got, I guess.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Striking Distance
“I want to burn the world because Alan is gone,” he said. “I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“I was slightly overwrought. Sometimes that happens when you get phone calls saying that your child has tumbled into a well.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“I wasn’t showing what I really felt. Real grief is ugly and uncomfortable. People look away from grief the same way they look away from severed limbs or gaping wounds. What they want is pain like death on a stage: beautiful, bloodless, presented for their entertainment”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“I wish all the sorcerers in the world had just one throat,” Angela announced. “So I could punch them in it.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“I wish,” Jared began, and stopped, breathing in. “Do you remember how you used to believe I wasn’t real? Sometimes I wish that was true. If I was just a thought in the back of your mind, then I’d be with you, and I’d be better.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“I’d only realized what I wanted the night before. I was terrified of losing you. I should have realized how I felt about you before, but how do you see the planet you live on? The air you breathe? It was always there. It was too big for me to see. You were always just there. I could look at you every day, the same way I can look at the stars every day. I never had to think about how much I wanted to look.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Disarmed
“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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“If I show consideration for others,” Lillian Lynburn said grumpily, “will you tell me again about how you shot my husband?” Jon rolled his eyes. “Yes, Leigh, if you manage to approximate human behavior for half an hour, I will tell you your favorite story again.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“If I wasn’t going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn’t have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“If the truth didn’t help anyone, and love didn’t last, what was there left to struggle toward?”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“I’ll bury you alive by her garden gate. I’ll enjoy it. Every time she goes out in the morning, every time she comes home, she’ll walk on your grave, and she’ll know she’s safe.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“I’m sorry about dragging you into my evil schemes with my masculine wiles. I didn’t realise, um, the force of my own wiliness. I don’t actually use my wiles a lot.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“In two worlds,” said Alan quietly, “there is nothing I love half as much as you.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“It is always about you for me.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Kami linked her arms behind his back, felt the breadth of his shoulders and the reality of skin and muscle and bone, and thought again, Don’t let me go.” (Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes)
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Kami’d always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
“Learning moves isn’t easy, but unlearning what you thought you knew is the toughest.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Disarmed
“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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Listen to me. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn’t matter. You’re not one of them. You never were. You’re not theirs. You’re mine.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“Love always costs more than you can afford to pay,” he said. “And it’s always worth the price.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“Love was the mystery nobody could solve, the fairy tale everyone loved to listen to and not quite believe in.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“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
“Maybe that is the only thing I have ever learned about love: love is when you save someone no matter what the cost.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Lexicon
“Nicholas walked back to their dormitory, bumping shoulders with Seiji companionably in the way nobody else ever did, but he was still much quieter than usual. It was worrying.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Striking Distance
“Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Lexicon
“Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can’t do is just sensible.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren’t even real. All I ever wanted was you.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“Oh my gosh, Nick. You’re not wearing a shirt! This must be one of those exciting days ending in Y.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“Oh, Alan Ryves,” she said. “You’re such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“Once you lose something, it tends to stay gone. This is especially true with chances.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“Only those who already had love could afford to dismiss it.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“Other people cared a lot about what Jesse thought of them, but Seiji couldn’t picture Nicholas caring. Everyone liked Jesse better than Seiji, but Nicholas wouldn’t. Not even if, for some reason, Nicholas got to know Jesse and Jesse actually tried to be charming. Even then, Seiji was sure, though he didn’t have much basis for the certainty, that Nicholas would still like him better.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Striking Distance
“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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“Put the jerk in the south wing, you won’t see him for weeks at a time. Or lock him in the attic. The law will not be on your side, but literary precedent will.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“She had always thought she needed to be in control, but now she found she did not want to put any limits on herself at all. She wanted to be the person she was, and not the person anyone, including herself, had ever thought she should be. She had thought a lot lately about making all the love stories her own, of telling them her own way.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“She had lived the idea of spreading truth like a fire, like touching a lit candle to another candle and watching its flame come to life, until the whole world was bright and you saw everything clear.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“She had worried that 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.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“She is great,” said Jared. “And beautiful. She’s like a star to me, something bright and lovely seen from another world. She’s someone else’s sun. That’s how all other girls are to me. You’re my sun.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“She overcame a moment of hesitation and glanced at Jared. All the lights in his crazy gray eyes were dancing. A shiver went through her, a ripple of his delight. She felt again the way she had at the Crying Pools and at her house, the thrill of sharing your secret soul and having someone think it was wonderful.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“She wanted to be the person she was, and not the person anyone, including herself, had ever thought she should be.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“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”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“She was kind of in love with him.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“She’d always thought she was sensible about romance: she hadn’t ever wanted any sort of wild destructive passion that would interfere with college applications. She had thought love would change the story she told about herself too much, that love would make her story less smart or less meaningful. She’d had Jared in her head all the time, though. She’d had love already. Only those who already had love could afford to dismiss it.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“She’d always known he loved her, it had been the one certainty above all others that had never changed, but she had never said the words aloud and she had never meant them quite this way before. She had said it to him, and she hardly knew what she had meant. They were terrifying words, words to encompass a world.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“So I heard you tried to kill a guy with a paintbrush.” “Don’t try to stifle my artistic self-expression” (Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes)
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Surrender
“Some say love cannot be bought, but mine is available at this time for anyone with a good heart and the ability to use a photocopier.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Sometimes I feel better around you. I kind of like your face’ -Nick”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“Sometimes I want to be human for you.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“Tell the wind and fire where to stop. But don’t tell me.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“The Bon was carrying a fruit basket with a card that read Get Well Soon, Aiden! on it in glitter. Nicholas hadn’t known Aiden was under the weather. He hoped he felt better soon. Aiden wasn’t Nicholas’s favorite person or anything, but he was one of Nicholas’s teammates. That was more important than anything else.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Striking Distance
“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 girl might have an unsettling crying problem, but she was pure steel.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Lexicon
“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
“The word ‘home’, it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Lexicon
“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
“There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“They stood at the bottom of the steps under a light shaped like a caged star, soothing each other with their thoughts as they had done for years and years, since they were swapping lullabies in cradles across an ocean.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“This evening was all my dreams come true. I can never get enough of people looking down their noses at me. You do it beautifully. I wish you had two noses, so that you could look at me down both.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Unquestionably, Harvard was Aiden’s favorite. Even if he did insist on dragging Aiden away from his life of careless playboy ease. Aiden tried to be very dedicated to his life of careless playboy ease.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Striking Distance
“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
“When you weren’t feeling it, you weren’t feeling it.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Fence: Striking Distance
“Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“You are the greatest achievement of your own life.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unmade
“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 know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think I’m secretly deep now. And you are right. It is true. I have deeps.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“You know, when you were three years old, you got lost in the woods and we found you with your head in a foxes den. Sometimes I think very little has changed. I mean, you be a bit taller.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Untold
“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 want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I’m currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“You were not the first dream I ever had, but you were the only dream that ever felt real. You were the dream the taught me I did have a soul. I don’t know how low I will fall or what evil I will do, but I know you. I know there is nothing between us and there never could be. But I would do whatever you asked. I would do anything you want. If I had anything Worth giving to you, I would give it. If I had anything to sacrifice, I would sacrifice it for you.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Tell the Wind and Fire
“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
“Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
Unspoken
“You’re barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them?”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Covenant
“You’re dressed for dancing,” she said in her throaty stage voice. “Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn’t think Merris would like it.”
Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon’s Lexicon
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