507 Quotes by Sarah Rees Brennan

Seriously,” said Kami, her voice faint. “I think I left the oven on at home. Or the iron. Possibly both.

I don’t like wizard stories all that much. Stories about witches are better, because witches are morally ambiguous and traditionally disempowered.

Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don’t know they’re telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they’re lying, then you can start to build a world.

Lillian’s face went white and her eyes looked blind as a creature’s that had lived underground all its life and only now emerged into the horror of the sun.

But the power to rule meant the power to destroy – that was the darkness at the heart of ruling. It meant you had the power of life and death over people, and because you had the power, you thought that meant you had the right.

She was god-awfully hideous. I swear she looked like a bad-tempered mutant tomato, and she was making a sound like a cat being fed into a printer.

Do not have a catfight, boys, even if it is that time of the month,” said Serene, and when she saw them staring at her, she explained: “You know – women shed their dark feelings with their menses every month? But men, robbed of that outlet, have strange moodswings and become hysterical at a certain phase of the moon?

I was slightly overwrought. Sometimes that happens when you get phone calls saying that your child has tumbled into a well.

Forest deep, silent bells There’s a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old.