Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
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Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.
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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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...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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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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We sat on the picnic bench, not talking, not looking at each other, but being quiet and okay. The rain was almost gone, nothing but a thin chilly fog. For now, I just wanted to sit on the picnic bench with him and not be anything but fine and uncomplicated.
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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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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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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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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.