28 Quotes by Brittany Cavallaro

She was altogether colorless and severe, and still she managed to be beautiful. Not the way that girls are generally beautiful, but more like the way a knife catches the light, makes you want to take it in your hands.

Even if I wasn't in love with her, I couldn't see myself loving anyone else.

I took her to my favorite bookstore, where I loaded her up with Ian Rankin novels and she bullied me into buying a book on European snails.

Wait" I said "You wanted to hit me the other night?"Holmes lifted her head from the pillow."I want to hit everything all the time

The world goes warped and strange in the hours before dawn, as the birds, with their voices, remind you how they spend their days loitering above, unseen.

For the next weeks, I hit snooze over and over in some wild hope that the morning would just pack up and leave me alone.

The police aren’t going to let us help them, not if Shepard’s any indication,” she said. “Idiots. I suppose that they don’t like that I tampered with their crime scene.”“We’re also their prime suspects,” I reminded her. “That sort of puts a damper on our working relationship.

I’d always hated those films—they’d portrayed Dr. Watson as a bumbling idiot, and Sherlock Holmes as an automaton.

I was maybe the only person to ever have his imaginary friend made real.