“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
It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful. — Brenna Yovanoff 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Intent matters. If you believe you're charmed, capable, likable, popular, then you are.” — Brenna Yovanoff Intent 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
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
People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own. — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“I’d laughed this high-pitched, witchy laugh, and looked right at him. Mostly, I remember feeling vital and untouchable, like I was free… — 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 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 stand in front of him, trying to figure out how to look friendly or normal and where to put my hands...… — Brenna Yovanoff 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 Copy Share Image
“God, I hate her!” Kelly shouts as soon as Connor and his mom are out of the store. “How did that wretched,… — Brenna Yovanoff Hate Copy Share Image
“I walk the three blocks to the school slowly, like if I’m not careful of every step, every tiny movement, I will… — 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 Farewells Copy Share Image
“Callie glances over her shoulder. She's younger than me, but aggressively put together, with curled hair and heavy lipstick.” — 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.… — Brenna Yovanoff 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
The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. — Brenna Yovanoff Contest 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 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
“Don't listen. Whatever they said, whatever they told you about yourself, it's not true.” — Brenna Yovanoff Communication Copy Share Image
All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now. — Brenna Yovanoff Life 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
“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
“It seemed so hopeless, so impossible that a life could rest on such a small thing (the human heart).” — Brenna Yovanoff 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
“The tone of his voice is like he expects a fight, like he’s challenging me to disagree, and I want to tell… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“...you have to think about your options, weigh the consequences before you make decisions, but the advice was so worthless when it… — Brenna Yovanoff Choice Copy Share Image
“It was completely unshocking that there were monsters in the world, secret rituals and underground burrows filled with the dead, when in… — Brenna Yovanoff Monsters 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… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“He knew how useless words could be. How even when you wanted more than anything just to hear someone say they understood,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“For the first time in maybe my whole life, I feel dangerous and magical, like a dragon or a mermaid. A fury,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge… — Brenna Yovanoff Cutter Copy Share Image
“I get out my hairbrush and wish for her—the real Lillian, and not the worst, most selfish parts of her. I wish… — Brenna Yovanoff Best friend Copy Share Image