130 Quotes by Brenna Yovanoff

I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

The world is under no obligation to be sane or orderly.

All my life, I’ve understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how dark the world gets. You can be saved by the smallest thing.

The town was its green suburban lawns, sure, but it was also its secrets. The kind of place where people double-checked the locks at night or pulled their kids closer in the grocery store. They hung horseshoes over their front doors and put up bells instead of wind chimes. They wore crosses made from stainless steel instead of gold because gold couldn’t protect them from people like me.

I’ve never been impulsive. It’s always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn’t matter anymore.

Girl cut from marble needs no one, when it should have said, I have been so lonely for so long that I have almost stopped breathing.

Because the truth is that if everyone’s special all the time, then really, no one’s special, so maybe all that’s left is just to be perfect, because at least that’s something you can measure.

I still can’t picture what he does in his every day life when he’s not busy with school or misdemeanors or me.