130 Quotes by Brenna Yovanoff

The effectiveness of your persona is inversely proportional to what people know about you.

And that’s all it takes to make you happy? You kill little kids, then go home and wait until it’s time to do it all again? What the hell kind of existence is that?

Sometimes you do things that feel bad later just so you don’t feel worse right now.

But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.

Autumn is not nobody, but a real, actual force of nature. She is so much more than just some run-of-the-mill person. She’s Bette David and Dorothy Parker and Madonna. Autumn is Tyler Durden and Tony Soprano. Autumn is Cthulhu, Destroyer of Worlds.

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.

It’s nice being around someone without always having to think about who you’re supposed to be and what you’re supposed to do and think and say. It’s nice to just concentrate on being the person you are – whoever you are.

I thought he made me a different person altogether, but maybe I was always holding those pieces inside me, waiting for a chance to use them.

It’s hazardous, though, being that much to someone. When you’re the yardstick that everything else is measure against, eventually, you just fail.