Top 200 Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You will always be my favorite person in the world.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

2. “Listen to me. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn’t matter. You’re not one of them. You never were. You’re not theirs. You’re mine.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

3. “Being able to depend on someone doesn’t mean you’re dependent on them.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

4. “Fear’s useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn’t: If it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you’ve wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

5. “She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn’t broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

6. “You know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think I’m secretly deep now. And you are right. It is true. I have deeps.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

7. “I don’t mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I’m a dream ruiner.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

8. “People will come up with a hundred thousand reasons why other people do not count as human, but that does not mean anyone has to listen.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

9. “I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

10. “Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don’t know they’re telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they’re lying, then you can start to build a world.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

11. “Forest deep, silent bells There’s a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

12. “You should wear whatever clothing you feel most comfortable in. Being comfortable in yourself is the best way to be attractive to others.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

13. “Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

14. “I don’t trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn’t the same as being good.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

15. “I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

16. “You don’t have to be my sister, and I know it doesn’t make up for anything, but I’m yours, I’m yours. I love you and I won’t stop loving you even if you hate me, I won’t leave you, I won’t want to, nothing you ever do or say will ever make me turn away from you. And that’s family, it is, it has to be.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

17. “I am utterly in love with you. I’ve been in love with you all my whole life. I’ve been in love with you your whole life. I don’t know how to live without being in love with you, and I don’t want to know.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

18. “Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

19. “Don’t waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

20. “Tell the wind and fire where to stop. But don’t tell me.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

21. “Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about – it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

22. “Want me to flex my magic for you, baby?”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

23. “Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

24. “I am not winning any arguments because I know how to hurt someone. How does that prove that you’re right? How does being stronger or more vicious prove anything, except that all this talk about honor is stupid? Where’s the honor in being better at hurting somebody? Telling me I have to do this is insulting, as if I can’t win any other way. As if I can’t win in a better way.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

25. “You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I’m currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

26. “She had spent so much time worrying that accepting love, becoming part of all the love stories, would trap her in some way, change her into someone weak, someone she did not want to be. But she realized now that she had been narrow-minded, considering a love story as a lesser story, a story that might make her lesser to be part of. She had always thought she needed to be in control, but now she found she did not want to put any limits on herself at all.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

27. “Personally, I’d prefer a guy who wants to see my boobs.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

28. “You crazy girl,” Angela said. “Other people name their children after their best friends. I am going to name my ulcer after you! I am going to be forced to drink milk and take antacids and abstain from spicy food, and every time I want Indian takeout I will shake my fist at the sky and shout, ‘Damn you, Kami.’ Don’t ever do that again.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

29. “Why be broken when you can be gold?”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

30. “I thought ‘artistic’ was cunning code for ‘nude,’ ” said Kami. “Is that not true? Have I been lied to? Do I have a tragically perverted mind? Oh well, I guess that’s a shame.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

31. “Kami’d always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

32. “I know there is nothing between us and there never could be. But I would do whatever you asked. I would do anything you want. If I had anything worth giving to you, I would give it. If I had anything to sacrifice, I would sacrifice it for you.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

33. “Enough, she thought, enough, enough: nobody was allowed to make her this unhappy. She didn’t have to stay around him, any more than she had to keep her hand in a fire.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

34. “Down the well,” Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

35. “Ah, the problem is that you didn’t DTR,” said Holly wisely. Kami stared. “What?” “D. T. R.,” Holly spelled out, slowly and helpfully. “Do try rollerblading?” Kami guessed. “Dump the recycling. Don’t taste reptiles. No, that doesn’t make any sense at all.” Holly wrinkled her nose. “Because the others made perfect sense?” Kami shrugged, and Holly grinned.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

36. “Sometimes I want to be human for you.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

37. “If I could choose where to go, ” Carwyn resumed, as if I had not spoken at all. “If I could go anywhere in the world, I’d want to go with you. I don’t want to be where it’s safe. I want to be where you are.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

38. “An icon didn’t do anything of its own volition. A symbol didn’t act of its own accord. Both cities projected what they wanted onto me, and wanted me to stay still as they did it.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

39. “The code of not telling tales was the usual stuff where stronger people tried to impose their rules on weaker people so they could get away with everything.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

40. “Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

41. “The most annoying thing, perhaps, was that the elven troop were obviously good people and were being kind to them, and yet Elliot felt subtly wrong-footed at every turn. He wondered if this was how Serene felt all the time, and he promised himself to bear it as well as she did.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

42. “Who ever he is, I agree with your mother,” said Dad as he entered the kitchen. “Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you’re of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

43. “Put the jerk in the south wing, you won’t see him for weeks at a time. Or lock him in the attic. The law will not be on your side, but literary precedent will.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

44. “I hate this, I want this to stop, how are we supposed to live with this, and how am I supposed to walk away? You’re real and I hate you for it.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

45. “I’m not sorry,” Kami told him. “I wouldn’t go back to a time before we were born, make it right, and lose you. I wouldn’t be me without you. I wouldn’t, I never want to... Lose you.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

46. “You should want to have gifted students who may excel in both courses, and you should be encouraging students when they show interest in their studies. Do you not want warriors who are brilliant, and diplomats who are brave?”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

47. “You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

48. “Whenever I thought about dying, I always thought that you would remember me. I thought about living on in your mind. I knew I would be safe there, that I would be good there, remembered as better than I had been. I know all you have lost. I know everything is changed, but when I thought of death I didn’t think of going away. I always thought of it as still being with you.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

49. “My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

50. “Once you lose something, it tends to stay gone. This is especially true with chances.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan