“The thought of him is electric, beating in my chest like a birthday wish, dark and warm and secret.” — Brenna Yovanoff Finnegan-boone 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 Daphne Copy Share Image
“He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.” — Brenna Yovanoff First time Copy Share Image
“His eyes were softer now. When he smiled, the shape of his mouth made my blood go hot.” — Brenna Yovanoff Smiled 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 Bad thing Copy Share Image
“Lillian laughs and rolls her eyes. “Do I look like I know the answer to that? I always just locked on to… — Brenna Yovanoff Goals Copy Share Image
“Finny Boone is probably a sociopath. A big, lighter-stealing sociopath, but his eyes are steady and complicated.” — Brenna Yovanoff Finnegan-boone Copy Share Image
“Her smile doesn't look any more real than mine. I wonder if she has to practice too.” — 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 Battle Copy Share Image
“I'm not normal, Tate." "I know." Her hand was working its way under my shirt, then touching my skin, sliding over my… — Brenna Yovanoff Gaze 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.… — Brenna Yovanoff Abiding Copy Share Image
“Lillian is humming to herself, stretched out on top of my bookcase like she doesn’t mind the heat, and of course she… — Brenna Yovanoff Humming Copy Share Image
“What kind of people?" The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark… — Brenna Yovanoff Dead 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 Love Copy Share Image
“On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the… — Brenna Yovanoff Beauty Copy Share Image
“Back the, my life was mostly pieces-tire swings and lemonade, dogwood petals drifting down and going brown in the grass. Cotton dresses,… — Brenna Yovanoff Hopscotch Copy Share Image
“When he was done adding sloe gin and grenadine, Danny shoved the glass across the counter to Drew. "Try that and tell… — Brenna Yovanoff Danny 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 Kiss Copy Share Image
“I don’t remember any of the true, important parts, but there’s this dream I have.” — Brenna Yovanoff Dream 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 Daphne Copy Share Image
“Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.” — Brenna Yovanoff Gentleness Copy Share Image
“Sometimes being who you are - whoever you are - is hard. Sometimes, you can have it all together and still drive… — Brenna Yovanoff Crazy Copy Share Image
“He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop… — Brenna Yovanoff Comforting Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how to respond to that. There was something disturbing about being responsible for partially decayed girls going swimming.” — brenna yovanoff Disturbing Copy Share Image
“It seemed so hopeless, so impossible that a life could rest on such a small thing (the human heart).” — Brenna Yovanoff Hopeless Copy Share Image
“Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.” — Brenna Yovanoff Father Copy Share Image
The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. — Brenna Yovanoff Contest Copy Share Image
“All I want is for you to stand here and watch the people you love be horribly mutilated. Is that too much… — Brenna Yovanoff Mutilated 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.… — Brenna Yovanoff Happens Copy Share Image
“Sometimes this was just the way the game ended. Sometimes you did your best, and it all went straight to hell anyway.” — Brenna Yovanoff Ended 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 Love Copy Share Image
You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the… — Brenna Yovanoff Dance Copy Share Image
“Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it.” — Brenna Yovanoff Sadness Copy Share Image
“Intent matters. If you believe you're charmed, capable, likable, popular, then you are.” — Brenna Yovanoff Intent Copy Share Image
I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one… — Brenna Yovanoff Bigs 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 Love Copy Share Image
“There was a whole, sprawling world underneath us, filled with ugly, vicious, beautiful people. The line between the two places was thin,… — Brenna Yovanoff Beautiful people Copy Share Image
“From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and… — Brenna Yovanoff Cities Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or… — Brenna Yovanoff Considering Copy Share Image
