Top 100 Brittany Cavallaro Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

52. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

54. “What do normal people talk about?”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

57. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

59. “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.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

60. “As for Holmes, she disappeared into her magician’s trunk and swallowed the key. There would be no prying her out, not until the big reveal.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

62. “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?”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

66. “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

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

68. “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

69. “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

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

71. “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

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

73. “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

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

75. “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

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “Honesty is more efficient than lying.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

84. “You couldn’t control how someone else felt. You could hardly control how you felt most of the time.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

85. “She smiled at me, that one particular smile I hardly ever saw, the one that could open padlocks, Yale locks, bank vaults, the one that was a trapdoor down into everything.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

90. “You’re lucky I adore you.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

— Brittany Cavallaro

98. “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

99. “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

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

— Brittany Cavallaro