“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
The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. — Brenna Yovanoff Contests Copy Share Image
“Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends,… — Brenna Yovanoff Family 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 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
“Take your necklace off." "Why?" "Because if you don't, I can't kiss you.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“Why?” I say, so quietly that it comes out sounding like a tiny, tired sigh. “Nobody wants to be mediocre.” Her shadow… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“His eyes were softer now. When he smiled, the shape of his mouth made my blood go hot.” — Brenna Yovanoff 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
“The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves,… — Brenna Yovanoff Fates Copy Share Image
“You can't keep acting like this," Lillian says, and for the first time in months, it's like she's actually trying to be… — Brenna Yovanoff First time Copy Share Image
“Thinking of this friend I had. This friend I loved and keep loving--dead, but never really gone.” — Brenna Yovanoff Death 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
“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 Mackie 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 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
“We lay on the grass beside the cemetery fence, kissing and shivering. Her teeth started to chatter and I pulled her against… — Brenna Yovanoff Mackie Copy Share Image
Sometimes it doesn't matter how dark the world gets. You can be saved by the smallest thing. — Brenna Yovanoff Dark 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 Copy Share Image
“It seemed so hopeless, so impossible that a life could rest on such a small thing (the human heart).” — Brenna Yovanoff Human heart 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 Love 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 Copy Share Image
“...it seemed to me that some things were ugly enough that fixing them was worth trespassing.” — 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
