Top 100 Brittany Cavallaro Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I wanted the two of us to be complicated together, to be difficult and engrossing and blindingly brilliant.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

52. “I want to be good without being nice. Can I do that?”

— Brittany Cavallaro

53. “Number fifteen: if you wait for full disclosure from a Holmes, it might be years before you learn a damn thing.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

54. “He wound his fingers into my hair and kissed me, a promise in a language I couldn’t yet speak.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

55. “I couldn’t tell you what was in her head. I couldn’t even guess. But I was beginning to realize I liked that, the not knowing. I could trust her despite it. If she was a place unto herself, I might have been lost, blindfolded, and cursing my bad directions, but I think I saw more of it than anyone else, all the same.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

56. “But I had never wanted to be her boyfriend. I wanted something smaller than that, and far, far bigger.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

57. “Honesty is more efficient than lying.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

58. “Jamie Watson is far smarter than you think. He isn’t my accomplice. He’s no one’s accomplice. And he isn’t guilty of anything.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

59. “She looked like a whisper made real.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

60. “I’d prefer to think that we aren’t all so mercilessly bound to our pasts.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

61. “The two of us, we’re the best kind of disaster.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

62. “Jesus, come on. Charlotte’s sitting outside, alone. You guys are just sad without each other. There’s like this obvious empty space next to you. – Lena.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

63. “I have a rainy-day fund, you know,” she said, not quite looking at me. “Until recently, it was raining... rather a lot. But I... I’ve been trying to use an umbrella.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

64. “For the next weeks, I hit snooze over and over in some wild hope that the morning would just pack up and leave me alone.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

65. “After I avoided all my calls for another day, Mrs. Dunham came by my room and politely told me that if she had to speak to my panicked mother one more time, ahe would very publicly set herself on fire.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

66. “It was incredible the lengths people would go to to feel like they were in the know.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

67. “After Watson held a pillow so that I could punch it, after he’d cried in the bathroom where he thought I couldn’t hear, we put on sweatpants and went down to the twenty-four-hour-off-license and bought as much ice-cream as we could carry.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

68. “I miss you enough to say: “Please, don’t let me bully you into doing anything you wouldn’t want to do.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

69. “Just because you know something about yourself doesn’t mean you should be forgiven for it.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

70. “I was somebody who only wanted to see the world through paintings, never a photograph.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

71. “Holmes taught me that: people would much rather correct you than answer a straightforward question.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

72. “I was maybe the only person to ever have his imaginary friend made real.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

73. “I tried to fight the feeling that I was a guest star in my own life.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

74. “In that moment, I loved him more than anything else.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

75. “It’s not a secret. A secret is something embarrassing. Something compromising, something with power. Secrets are what we make art from.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

76. “Her train of thought broke off into a bunch of little toy trains and then raced off in different directions.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

77. “There was a kind of relief in it, the giving up.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

78. “Even if I wasn’t in love with her, I couldn’t see myself loving anyone else.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

79. “The simplest explanation is the truest. Always.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

80. “Holmes wasn’t a myth, or a king. She was a person. And to have a relationship with a person, you had to treat them like one.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

81. “Without each other, we could, quite literally, die.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

82. “I took her to my favorite bookstore, where I loaded her up with Ian Rankin novels and she bullied me into buying a book on European snails.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

83. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

84. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

86. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

87. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

90. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

91. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

92. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

97. “You’re lucky I adore you.”

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

100. “Holmes, my patron saint of trapdoors and fail-safes, of always remembering to pour the foundation so that, later, if you needed to, you could build a brilliant house on top.”

— Brittany Cavallaro