“It’s not the wisest thing - love - but when it happens, there’s not a lot you can do to stop it.… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“Are you waiting for someone to come and get you?” I whisper. I sound small and thirsty. He doesn’t answer. Instead, he… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“You asked about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“Goodbye," she said. When I didn't say it back, she rested her hand on the top of my head. The weight was… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“I just want that, the way I feel when you kiss me. Just having it makes all the bad things better.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“You asked me about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“Love is when you care more about something else than you do about yourself.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, I understand what Petra has always been trying to tell me. The whole time she was mumbling her litany of stories,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“Kissing him is like the wildest, most thrilling thing that has ever happened to me. It's like diving into the deep end… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“He is broken in three ways, sometimes four. I count them. -He believes himself to be human, but is not actually. At… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“When you love someone, sometimes it means that they strip you down, peel you open, and you have to let them and… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“My father gave me a ruined boy to compensate for the fact that he does not love me. The boy is fragile,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“It’s not the wisest thing - love - but when it happens, there’s not a lot you can do to stop it. Sometimes you… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“Whatever they said, whatever they told you about yourself, it’s not true” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“We're literal people, you and me. Whatever the most obvious interpretation is, that's our truth.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“The way Lillian says it is hungry, like she’s waiting for something to be revealed, and I wonder if maybe that’s the real difference… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“I still can't picture what he does in his every day life when he's not busy with school or misdemeanors or me.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel. — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“We sat on the picnic bench, not talking, not looking at each other, but being quiet and okay. The rain was almost gone, nothing… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“I don’t remember any of the true, important parts, but there’s this dream I have.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“Fisher twined his fingers with mine and when he did, the feeling was the best thing in the world, like it was always better… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“What's up?' he said, like the church was always burning down and I always called him on a school night, telling him to come… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image