Sarah Rees Brennan quotes

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Real #Boys #Doe

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Healing #Chocolate #Vampire

Chimes?" Phyllis asked. "Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you whatever song you most desire to hear?" "No thanks," said Nick. "We've got MTV.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Song #Mtv #Play

All he said was, "Here, have your dinfast. Then we can start packing." "Dinfast," Nick repeated. "Dinner and breakfast!" Alan said triumphantly. "Like brunch." Nick subjected him to a long, judgemental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Long #Judgemental #Breakfast

Remember," he called. "Just be yourself, and everyone will love you!" Nick rolled his eyes and made a rude gesture, and Alan drove the car away laughing.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Being Yourself #Love You #Eye

Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick, and shut his eyes. Jamie gave a small, nervous laugh. "What?" Mae demanded. "Alan told us that we were supposed to dress as we truly are!" "And you felt that what you truly are is a Christmas tree with too much tinsel." Nick grinned. "Huh.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Eye #Laughing #Car

Kami said, "I want you to go in there and vamp that receptionist." "What?" Ash said blankly. "You know," Kami said. "Dazzle her with your charms. Rock her world. Go on." [...] "What," Ash said, "all of us?" "Do you want to stand around trying to guess if she likes pretty boys or rough trade?" Jared asked, gesturing lazily from Ash to himself. "Excuse me, what did you just call yourself?" Ash demanded. "No, wait a second, I don't care. What did you just call me?
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Boys #Rocks #Waiting

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Girl #Boys #Thinking

Personally, I'd prefer a guy who wants to see my boobs.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Guy #Want

Okay, can you pass yourself off as a magician and gain Gerald's trust and pass us information about Celeste's plans and save all the magicians who want to be saved? Jaime asked. "Because if so awesome. I shall stay here and eat pie.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Pie #Information #Gains

Your timing is amazing," Kami told him. "By which I mean, I am amazed by it.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Mean #Timing #Amazed

Don't feel bad, Angela," Kami said. "You know guys, they only want one thing. Repartee. I can't count how many times men have admired my well-turned phrases.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Men #Guy #Want

His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his, like his terrified rage in the lift when they had first met, being wrapped in his arms in the cold well, being dazzled by his wonder at the woods and her home and her. Like being a child, awareness of him the morning chorus that woke her and the lullaby that sent her to sleep, his thoughts always her first and last song.I love you, Kami told him, and cut.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Love #Song #Morning

Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes." That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Missing #Vampire #Veins

Oh, Rusty, why did you let her in?" Angela said. "We could have just lain down on the floor until she went away. We could've had a nice floor nap." "Have you guys eaten?" Kami asked. "I'm starving." "Cooking is so much trouble," Rusty said mournfully. "You could order in," Kami suggested. "Delivery people are so annoying," Angela responded.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Nice #Naps #Order

I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Years #Laughing #Hundred

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

#Laziness #Sensible

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

#Thinking #Voice #Dancing

There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Listening #Deaf

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Tone #Said #Shock

Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Lying #Fall #Long

And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Voice #Television #Hobbies

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Want #Scared #Pity

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

#Girl #Giving #Mind

And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Divorce #Boys #Ever After

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Crazy #School #Class

I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand Katniss was being pursued by the mutts? You have several children, why does it always have to be about collecting the whole set all the time?)
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Mom #Children #Games

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

#Justice #World #Criminals

Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Fun #Caring #Emotional

When a guy says,'I'll call you,' and he doesn't say when-that means he won't call you." Kit pulled his phone out of his pocket and pressed a couple buttons. My phone vibrated in my pocket. I fished it out, smiling. "Madness," Kit whispered softly into his phone. "I meant I'd call you. This is me calling you.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Couple #Mean #Phones

Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Book #School #Parent

I can try to wheedle information out of people," Holly offered. "For which I'll need a lower-cut top.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Cutting #People #Hollies

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#People #Experts #Doe

You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Dying #Minutes

Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Apples #Water #Secret

Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Mean #Editors #Office

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

#Dream #Mean #Dark

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

#Beautiful #Thinking #Light

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

#Way #World #Said

Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Very Good

The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean...no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me... and my lipstick.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Summer #Mean #Eye

There's this book," Jared said. "And in this book a guy said that he would rather touch someones hand if she was dead than another girl who was alive. It's creepy. I know that." He was staring off into space, as if at some private nightmare. "Nothing matters in comparison. Nobody is real but her. So it feels sometimes as if nothing else matters at all, including other people. She wouldn't like that. Other people SHOULD matter." *** So he loved Kami.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Girl #Real #Book

Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Mean #Able

Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Sexy #Dad #Kids

It is always about you for me.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

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

#Emotional #Thinking #Light

Ash should take the ladies, because he's charming." Ash looked pleased. Jared raised his eyebrows. "Are you saying that I'm not a charmer?" "You are very dear to me, but you have all the savoir faire of a wildebeest," Kami told him. "A wildebeest," Jared repeated. "A dashingly handsome wildebeest," Kami assured him.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Eyebrows #Handsome #Ashes

And you don't ever have to worry about what I feel. The way I feel about you won't change. You can do whatever you like to me. You could turn this town to dust, burn the woods until they were cinders, you could cut out my heart. It wouldn't matter. It would not change a thing." "What if I ate a baby?" Jared's mouth curved up at the corners, slow and not cruel at all. "I'm sure you'd have a good reason," he said.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Baby #Heart #Cutting

I belong to you. He has no idea what he's up against. And that will get him in the end. I believe that. Everything's going to come right for you." "And you," Kami said again. "If everything's right for you," Jared said at last, "everything's right for me.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Believe #Ideas #Lasts

It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Miracle #Cows

They should've built a city on rock and roll.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Rock And Roll #Cities #Rocks

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

#Heart #Broken #Worried

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

#Eye #People #World

Honestly, Jared, one thing at a time. Why are you in a well with me? This is a really bad rescue!" [...] "I called the police as I was running to the well. I'm sure they're coming." "Did they say they were coming?" Kami asked suspiciously. "Or did you shout, 'Kami's in the well!' before jumping in the well too, thus loosing your phone and making sure the police think it was some kids playing a dumb joke?" Jared paused. [...] "Alternate plan," Jared said. "Do you have a very intelligent collie who might communicate through a system of barks to your parents that little Kami is in the well?
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Running #Kids #Intelligent

I was thinking." "I see no evidence of that, Jared." Kami said.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Thinking #Said #Evidence

Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Mother #Dad #Nice

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

#Mother #Song #Real

They were standing in a very large room. The floorboards stretched in a pale expanse at their feet. There was so much dust on the floor that it had a pearly sheen. ”Even you could not nap on this floor,” Kami told Angela. ”I don’t know, a dust mattress might be very comfortable,” said Angela. ”Also possibly orthopedic.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Dust #Feet #Naps

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

#Special #Treasure #Rooms

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

#Care #Information #Remember

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Hate #Ashes #Teeth

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

#Stupid #Thinking #Important

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

#Real #Believe #Breathing

Let me tell you about customs, James," said Lillian. "I am not accustomed to being summoned to someone else's home. You're very fortunate that I came." "I am indeed blessed," Dad told her. "I am also, by the way, called Jon." Lillian looked faintly surprised. "Are you?" "Really?" Dad asked. "Really? I was the only Asian guy who went to our school. I kind of stood out. While you are an identical twin, and I still managed to know your name.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Dad #Blessed #School

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

#Beautiful #Girl #Sexy

If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Struggle #Lasts #And Love

Why were you even there?" Kami asked. "Were you following me home?" "Are you asking me if I was stalking you?" "Maybe," said Kami. "Were you?" "Yeah," said Jared. "Little bit.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Home #Asking #Littles

Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Talking #Feelings #Facts

I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Dad #Children #Mean

They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Summer #School #Holiday

She was kind of in love with him.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Kind

Hey, Jamie,' said Seb. 'Want a lift?' 'Hey, Seb,' Jamie responded without missing a beat 'Drop dead.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Missing #Hey #Want

Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Knowing #Not Knowing #Helping

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

#Muggers #Shirts #Flash

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Fall #Mean #Jeans

I didn't mean for you to take that the wrong way," He said abruptly. Mae stared at him in amazement. So, for that matter, did Jamie. "What?" "Demons don't touch anyone without a reason," Nick went on, his eyes shut again. "You can imagine what kind of reasons we usually have. I don't like--not anyone--I didn't mean anything by it." "Oh," said Jamie. "Oh, that's okay! That's fine. I understand. I am filled to the brim with understanding and, and acceptance! I'm very Zen like that.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Mean #Eye #Acceptance

And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Block #Sleep #Oil

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Running #Doe #Incentives

Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies of the field. We toil not, neither do we jog," Mae informed Nick.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Running #Lilies #Fields

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!
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Gratitude #Car #Said

Nick is driving us," Jamie informed him. "Nick has a car. Nick has TWO cars. Ha!
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Two #Car #Driving

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Passion #Ballet #Pleasure

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Black And White #Mirrors #Wings

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Coffee #Voice #Movement

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.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Sorry #Hands #Saving

Peter,” Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?” “Of course,” Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.” “No,” said Ashley, staring, “That was a kiss.” “Didn’t it strike you as a little different from other thimbles you’ve had in the past?” Peter looked shifty. “Well, yes.” “Ha!” “It was my first thimble with tongue.” Peter told her with dignity.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Kissing #Past #Littles

They carried on sniping in the front seat, and Mae turned back to Jamie. "You doing okay?" she murmured. "Yes," said Jamie, a bit too earnestly. "I love you, Mae. Your hair is the color of flamingos! And I love Nick as well." He gazed soulfully in Nick's direction. "Sometimes when you are not being psychotic, you are quite funny. And you!" He regarded Seb for a long moment. "No, I still don't like you," he decided. "Maybe I need another drink." "I don't think so," Nick said.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Love You #Thinking #Hair

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

#Fear #Useless #Weapons

I'm told I have the body of a god." "A Greek god, or one of those gods with the horse heads or elephant's legs coming out of their chests?" Alan asked. "Next time someone tells you that, ask them to specify.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Horse #Elephants #Greek

Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Stupid #Mean #Pride