Top 70 Brenna Yovanoff Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

2. “Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

3. “When you name something, you take away some of it’s power. It becomes known.”

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4. “All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.”

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5. “Love is when you care more about something else than you do about yourself.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

6. “The hours spool out like a ribbon I can’t find the end of.”

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7. “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.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

8. “From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.”

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9. “Running is like music. It requires rhythm and focus. It requires dedication. It requires a dogged ability to shut out everything else. The herd is strung out below me, keeping time with the thump and slap of their cross-trainers. I hold the sound in my head and subtract cars, trucks, motorcycles, voices until it’s nothing but a song.”

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10. “I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won’t feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.”

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11. “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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12. “Everything in life involves choice.”

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13. “I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing.”

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14. “I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.”

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15. “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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16. “I’ve never been impulsive. It’s always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn’t matter anymore.”

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17. “Sometimes it doesn’t matter how dark the world gets. You can be saved by the smallest thing.”

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18. “The way he’s looking at me is like I’m the only beating heart in the world.”

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19. “All my life, I’ve understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.”

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20. “Because the truth is that if everyone’s special all the time, then really, no one’s special, so maybe all that’s left is just to be perfect, because at least that’s something you can measure.”

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21. “People make decisions, and maybe you don’t always agree, but those choices are still their own.”

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22. “You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.”

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23. “When you love someone, sometimes it means that they strip you down, peel you open, and you have to let them and not worry about how much it’s going to hurt.”

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24. “I thought he made me a different person altogether, but maybe I was always holding those pieces inside me, waiting for a chance to use them.”

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25. “I don’t do anything I’m not good at.”

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26. “The world is full of unused corners.”

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27. “The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.”

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28. “He understands me- how I am. If I forget to come up for air, he reminds me. If i get too literal or too focused, he doesn’t take it personally. I’m better at loving him than anyone else, because he never makes me guess what he needs. And because he lets me.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

29. “It’s not luck, Waverly. I mean yeah, to find someone who really gets you, maybe that’s luck, but if you treat people like they matter, they remember it.”

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30. “Sometimes you do things that feel bad later just so you don’t feel worse right now.”

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31. “Don’t show anyone the true, honest heart of yourself or else, when something goes wrong, you might wind up rotting in a tree.”

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32. “It’s strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.”

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33. “I assumed it was a matter of time. One day I’d meet someone who counteracted my chemical structure. We would compete for supremacy, collide until one of us was forced to yield, or else go forth together, suspended in eternal stalemate. But my model is inaccurate. The poets are wrong. The opposite of ice isn’t fire. It’s water.”

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34. “The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you’re just a part of it.”

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35. “The gap between myself and the facade of myself must be growing exponentially. The.”

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36. “They’ve called us a lot of things – the good neighbors, the fair folk. The gray ones, the old ones, the other ones. Spirits and haunts and demons.”

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37. “Suddenly, I understand what Petra has always been trying to tell me. The whole time she was mumbling her litany of stories, she was always only telling me one thing. Love is when you care more about something else than you do about yourself.”

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38. “The effectiveness of your persona is inversely proportional to what people know about you.”

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39. “Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it. It ringed her pupils in rusty starbursts, but she was grinning – this terrible, ferocious grin. It made her look like she wanted to tear someone’s throat out.”

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40. “There’s something awful about the sun.”

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41. “I start, because if I don’t, then everything just stays the same.”

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42. “I want to be still and small, and not have to man up or act like everything’s okay, but the thing about living in a house where someone is sick is, it’s like they have a monopoly on it. If one person is always needing things, then no one else is really allowed to.”

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43. “The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.”

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44. “I am insubstantial. A tangled, vaporous creature that lives in my brain, almost wholly imaginary. I can be here with him as easily as I can inhabit a sonnet or an organic molecule, or crawl inside a math problem.”

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45. “If we were having this conversation, that meant something was either wrong with me, or it was wrong with everybody else, and I had a basic enough understanding of probability to know that the odds did not rest with an entire planet.”

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46. “The way Lillian says it is hungry, like she’s waiting for something to be revealed, and I wonder if maybe that’s the real difference between us – that when she pulls back the curtain and stares into the blackness behind it, it’s just one more way of testing herself. Like some game you can never win, because even if you face all the shocking realities and the horrors of the world, once you’ve seen that kind of awfulness, you can never un-see it. You have to carry it around with you forever.”

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47. “Even in that black dress, even in the dark, Waverly was the brightest thing in the gym.”

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48. “Don’t take this the wrong way, but all my life you’ve been the weirdest person I’ve ever met. That doesn’t make you not a real person. In fact, it makes you pretty goddamn specific.”

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49. “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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50. “Everything smells like mildew, and the grim commitment to filth that can only be cultivated by post-adolescent boys.”

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