Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
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This is aeons older than you or your family. Older than the town. Blood makes the sun shine and the crops grow. This is the truth of the world. Fuck the world. I just want my sister back.
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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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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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People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
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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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Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.
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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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The world is full of unused corners.
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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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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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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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All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.
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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.