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61 " It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful. "
― Brenna Yovanoff , The Space Between
62 " For the first time in maybe my whole life, I feel dangerous and magical, like a dragon or a mermaid. A fury, standing there with my half-gone grape slush and my jaw clenched, ready for whatever comes next. "
― Brenna Yovanoff , Paper Valentine
63 " It’s not the wisest thing - love - but when it happens, there’s not a lot you can do to stop it. Sometimes you just have to soldier on through. "
64 " The world is full of unused corners. "
65 " What's wrong?" His voice was loud, so sharp that he sounded angry.I knew I should be careful, keep the secret, but I was too far gone to talk around it. My chest was working in huge spasms and I could barely breathe. "I kissed her.""And then you went into anaphylactic shock?"I closed my eyes and let the rain patter against my face through the open window "She has her tongue pierced. "
― Brenna Yovanoff , The Replacement
66 " how awful to never be allowed to fail "
67 " Don’t you ever just have those days where even if you don’t really like someone, you might as well hang out with them because right then, it’s better than being alone? "
68 " Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want. "
69 " Your gods don't know you exist.And that's okay. "
― Brenna Yovanoff , Places No One Knows
70 " Her smile doesn't look any more real than mine. I wonder if she has to practice too. "
71 " I assumed it was a matter of time. One day I’d meet someone who counteracted my chemical structure. We would compete for supremacy, collide until one of us was forced to yield, or else go forth together, suspended in eternal stalemate. But my model is inaccurate. The poets are wrong. The opposite of ice isn’t fire. It’s water. "
72 " Is it hypocritical to love a person and still find fault with their actions?"-The Morrigan "
73 " Their lead guitar sounded like what would happen if someone wedged a traffic accident into a blender. "
74 " I never told her, but the Queen of Hearts charm always reminded me of her, even when she was alive. The way that all ways were Lillian’s ways, and how in the story the queen is unpredictable and kind of scary, but even when she throws a tantrum or threatens to cut off Alice’s head, she never really means it. "
75 " I want to be William Shakespeare and Galileo and Robert Frost. I want to be Sappho. I want to be Jane Austen. I want to be Holden Caulfield and Marilyn Monroe and Joan of Arc. I’m sad to think they came before me in history, they made their mark without me. But they were there. They happened. "
76 " Suddenly, I understand what Petra has always been trying to tell me. The whole time she was mumbling her litany of stories, she was always only telling me one thing. Love is when you care more about something else than you do about yourself. "
77 " Why does she always seem to think you drive like we're holding up a bank?"Roswell grinned and rolled his eyes, "Because that's what teenagers do, right? They also carve swastikas into their arms, steal prescription drugs from old people, and freebase cocaine. I need to institute a policy where she stops watching 60 Minutes and pretty much all public service announcements. "
78 " Truman Flynn is a piece of paper in my coat pocket. He is a memory of water and of loss, his hand sliding free from mine, no way to hold on. "
79 " Take your necklace off.""Why?""Because if you don't, I can't kiss you. "
80 " 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 between us—that when she pulls back the curtain and stares into the blackness behind it, it’s just one more way of testing herself. Like some game you can never win, because even if you face all the shocking realities and the horrors of the world, once you’ve seen that kind of awfulness, you can never un-see it. You have to carry it around with you forever. "