Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
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The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.
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Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These are things I did with no consequences, no repercussions. My nineteen detentions were for smart answers and missed homework. There is no equivalent punishment for making the world a stranger place.
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Sometimes this was just the way the game ended. Sometimes you did your best, and it all went straight to hell anyway.
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Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome.
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The world is full of unused corners.
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That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.
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...you have to think about your options, weigh the consequences before you make decisions, but the advice was so worthless when it came to the things that mattered.
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People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
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Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.
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Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.
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All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.
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I didn't know how to respond to that. There was something disturbing about being responsible for partially decayed girls going swimming.
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On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the same thing. But it didn't matter how pretty you painted the world.
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Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want.