Top 100 Brittany Cavallaro Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t need someone to fight for me. I can fight for myself.”

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2. “The only common denominator in everything you attempt is yourself.”

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3. “Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now?”

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4. “We weren’t Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn’t, too. Like electricity, and refrigerators. And Mario Kart.”

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5. “The two of us, we’re the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and machetes.”

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6. “I don’t cry, as a rule. Nothing good comes out of fighting, i’ll give you that, but crying? For a moment, you might feel a touch of release, but for me that’s always been followed hard by waves of shame, and helplessness. I hate feeling helpless. I’ll do anything to avoid it.”

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7. “I belonged here, I thought, with her, as surely as anyone belonged anywhere. As weird as here was.”

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8. “Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.”

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9. “I felt like I was being pulled through a dark, dank wardrobe into some boozy Narnia.”

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10. “When things were going wrong, it was so easy to imagine that everyone knew, that everyone was talking about it. But nobody cared nearly as much about your life as you did.”

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11. “I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down. After a while, they became more like a shorthand for who I was and less like things I actually enjoyed.”

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12. “I began wondering if there was some kind of Watsonian guide for the care and keeping of Holmeses.”

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13. “But it appears that I am willing to put up with many things for the sake of Jamie Watson. He is fond of watching old episodes of The X-Files, which is, to the best of my understanding, a show about a rather appallingly dumb man who is nevertheless very attractive, and aliens.”

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14. “I’d always hated those films – they’d portrayed Dr. Watson as a bumbling idiot, and Sherlock Holmes as an automaton.”

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15. “Once, I had loved her so much it was like a needle through my heart. Maybe I still did. Somehow, though, it seemed beside the point.”

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16. “God, I hate teenagers. – Detective Shepard.”

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17. “You looked like My Little Ponies auditioning at a glue factory.”

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18. “I imagine she’d do anything to keep you alive. But giving her your heart is like handing a glass figurine to a child. She’ll flip it over, peer through it like a lends. Shake it to see if it makes a sound. In the end, it will slip her hands and shatter. In the end, it’s your fault. You were the one who gave it to her.”

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19. “Thinking you know everything is dangerous.”

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20. “But tonight I’ll go alone. You’re about as stealthy as a lame elephant. See you later.” She patted me on the shoulder and took off down the path, leaving me behind, both charmed and insulted. The side effects of hanging around Charlotte Holmes.”

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21. “I could tell he was lying. But it didn’t mean I knew what the truth was.”

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22. “And even so, before I had ever met Charlotte Holmes, I was sure she was the only friend I would make in that miserable place.”

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23. “When I saw a story about a stolen painting on the front page of the newaspaper, I told my mother that Charlotte Holmes and I were going to solve the case. My mother cut me off saying, “Jamie, if you try to do anything like that before you turn eighteen, I will sell every last one of your books in the night, starting with your autographed Neil Gaiman.”

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24. “She was altogether colorless and severe, and still she managed to be beautiful. Not the way that girls are generally beautiful, but more like the way a knife catches the light, makes you want to take it in your hands.”

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25. “No one else in the world would put up with this girl. “You are awful,” I said, and even then I was forgiving her.”

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26. “When we first met, I had only been trying to survive, and he had snuck in, somehow, when I was at my lowest, and now I didn’t know myself without him.”

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27. “He had looked at a teenage girl, his teenage son’s girlfriend, and seen a shirley temple where he should have seen poison.”

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28. “Charlotte. There’s a girl on the roof. She says her name is Lena... She says she brought the helicopter you wanted? – August.”

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29. “Is it pathetic to say that I have art in my blood? I do. I am an artist. My medium is unseen, but I am one all the same.”

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30. “John H. Watson might have been many things – a doctor, a storyteller, and by most accounts a kind and decent man-but he clearly wasn’t a zoologist. There’s no such thing as a swamp adder. And the idea that Sherlock Holmes deduced its existence from a saucer of milk is ridiculous- snakes have zero interest in milk. They also can’t hear anything but vibrations, so they wouldn’t hear a whistle. But they do breathe, so a snake couldn’t survive in a locked safe.”

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31. “I kept my own company. That was a polite way of saying that I was my own friend and if I want to be alone I’d have to get rid of myself.”

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32. “But grief did strange things to you. Made you see yourself at a distance.”

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33. “I felt it. Felt everything. I knew I wanted to erase myself from the top down, like a drawing, and that still I wanted someone to touch my edges and tell me that they loved me despite them.”

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34. “Friendship I understood. There had to be an arc there, some kind of story that the two of you were telling just by being together. Something made up from what you wanted from the world and what you got instead. A story you reminded each other of when you needed to feel understood.”

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35. “Being a woman with a contrary opinion does not render me hysterical.”

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36. “But none of those deductions were methodical, Watson. That was all psychology. I loathe psychology.” “It’s okay,” I told her. “I hate losing at games, too.”

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37. “There are many ways of taking responsibility. We don’t always have to pay for our sins with our blood, or by sacrificing our futures.”

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38. “There’s not a lot you can control, you know. Where you’re born. Who your family is. What people want from you, and what you are, underneath it all. When you have so little say in it all, I think it’s important to exercise a measure of control when given the opportunity.” She smiled, ducking her head. “So I blow things up.”

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39. “I kept thinking of a film I’d seen late at night, years ago, where a boy and girl wandered a city all night long, talking and falling a little bit in love. They’d been in Europe. They’d agreed to meet again the next year if they still felt the same about each other.”

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40. “You’re part of the forensics club,” the medical examiner said doubtfully. I shifted my weight from foot to foot. “Detective Shepard is our adviser,” I said. It was true. Sort of. You could look at this semester as the weirdest independent study anyone had ever had.”

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41. “Girls could be so profligate with their love, as though by spreading it wide, they would induce the world to love them back. As though the world wasn’t going to take that love and beat them with it.”

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42. “I’m not sure what I expected; largely, I try not to expect anything at all. Life is empathetically disappointing to those who expect it to be otherwise.”

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43. “So time passed, as time tends to do.”

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44. “I simply was what I was – a girl who had forged herself into a statue.”

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45. “I’d heard it said before that Prague was a fairy-tale city. Watson repeated it now as we made our slow progression in from the airport. Steepled roofs, pastel buildings, cobbled roads an switchbacks. An astronomical clock that stood stories high in a public square. I’d been there once before with Milo when we were children. Our Aunt Araminta had decided we needed “culturing”. I think she may have mistaken us for bacteria.”

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46. “The sun was rising in the distance, pulled up by its lazy, invisible string, and the sky was shot through with color. Her hair was washed in gold, her cheeks, in gold, and her eyes were as knowing as a psychic’s.”

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47. “What do normal people talk about?”

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48. “My mum was cross with Milo for teasing me. He kept telling me Santa Claus was real.”

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49. “I’m happy Mariella left. At least fifty bucks’ worth of this haul is hers. Was hers, I guess. Oops.”

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50. “It’s strange to grieve for your former self, and still I think it’s something that any girl understands. I’ve shed so many skins, I hardly know what I am now – muscle, maybe, or just memory. Perhaps just the will to keep going.”

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