Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae

Sarah Rees Brennan

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Religious
  • Islam

• I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Support
  • Myself

• Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Director

• I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Always
  • Maybe

• Sports saved my life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Privacy

• I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Sky
  • Looked

• The Rogue Cyborg is doing serious Rogue Cyborg stuff. He’s crouched before a data terminal as though it were an ancient altar, and from the look on his face what he’s praying for is desperate and bloody revenge.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Serious
  • Revenge

• From Lee, a dramatist: Ah! the poet hath no true hope, who doth not place it in the many, and in the feeling of the common multitude.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • True
  • Hope
  • Feeling

• I'm so much happier now that people seem to find better things to ask me about than all my 'accomplishments' from when I was a little girl. I feel like that was so long ago, and so irrelevant to who I am now, that I am glad the focus isn't really on that as much any more.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • People
  • Long
  • Girl

• Be held truthful that your lies may count.

  

  Addison Mizner
  • May
  • Lies

• I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • People

• I'm going to get controversial here and say that monogamy isn't natural, especially not for men. It's a concept society birthed a few hundred years ago, even though men's DNA is busy telling them to spread the seed.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Men
  • Society

• My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Mom
  • Grandparents

• Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

  

  Andrew Mellon
  • Men
  • Strong

• For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Life
  • Time

• I wear sweat pants; I look terrible all the time. I'm so vulnerable.

  

  Leah Pipes
  • Time

• If one has faith one has everything.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Faith

• Stable climates with muted seasons allow more kinds of organisms to specialize on narrower pieces of the environment, to outcompete the generalists around them, and so persist for longer periods of time. Species are packed more tightly. No niche, it seems goes unfilled. Specialization is likely to be pushed to bizarre, beautiful extremes.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Environment

• Everyone changes all the time.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Time

• Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

  

  Aimee Carter
  • Trying
  • Chance

• And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan