Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
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When you name something, you take away some of it's power. It becomes known.
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The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you’re just another part of it.
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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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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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People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
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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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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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Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.
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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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The world is full of unused corners.
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People do that sometimes. Change.
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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.