Top 100 Brittany Cavallaro Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

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

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5. “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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6. “God, I hate teenagers. – Detective Shepard.”

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7. “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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8. “So time passed, as time tends to do.”

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9. “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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10. “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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11. “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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12. “I don’t need someone to fight for me. I can fight for myself.”

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13. “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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14. “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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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. “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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17. “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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18. “But grief did strange things to you. Made you see yourself at a distance.”

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19. “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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20. “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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21. “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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22. “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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23. “Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.”

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24. “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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25. “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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26. “Maybe this is what happened when you built a friendship on a foundation of mutual disaster. It collapsed the second things righted themselves, left you desperate for the next earthquake.”

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27. “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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28. “I miss you too. I miss you like breathing. Have I already said that? I do, though. I miss you like naan pizza and builder’s tea. Like you’re the home I never knew I had.”

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

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30. “I couldn’t atone for anyone’s mistakes, but I had two hands, and I could help.”

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31. “And as for Watson – we’d smashed our friendship into bits and rebuilt it from the ground up. It resembled nothing, now, other than itself.”

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32. “My mother had been monologuing about how much I’d like it there while I packed up my closet in silence, wondering if I flung myself out the window, would it properly kill me or just break both my legs.”

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33. “Every version of you is interesting to me.”

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34. “There it was, that weightless rush, that floor-bottoming-out exhilaration that comes from saying something you can’t take back.”

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35. “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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36. “But these – they weren’t case updates so much as letters, the kind you wrote to someone you knew so well you could imagine them beside you, even when they were across an ocean, living out another life.”

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37. “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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38. “He is a boy and he is in love with me, but only because the world bores him. His world is boring because it loves him, you see.”

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39. “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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40. “People have motives, Lottie. People aren’t blindly altruistic. Even if all they’re getting is the thrill of self-righteousness, they’re seeking some reward.”

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41. “Reading took me away from myself, so I tried to be reading all the time.”

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42. “I’m a teenage girl. He is my boy best friend. We would be everything to each other until we couldn’t.”

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43. “I love you. I’ve never in my life loved anything more.”

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44. “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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45. “There needs to be a German compound word for feeling both guilty and enraged.”

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46. “You’re lucky I adore you.”

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47. “Some people don’t like to read. Or they don’t like sport. They don’t like the routine of it, or the slow pace, or the fast pace, or the noise. Whether it seems too intellectual or too base. But I’m an anomaly if I don’t like parties or restaurants? It’s wrong if I don’t like the idea that there are a demanded set of responses and that I’ll be judged on how well I can provide them?”

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48. “What do normal people talk about?”

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49. “Even someone as disguisting as Dobson deserved the chance to grow up and become a better person.”

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

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