Top 200 Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I was slightly overwrought. Sometimes that happens when you get phone calls saying that your child has tumbled into a well.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

102. “You were not the first dream I ever had, but you were the only dream that ever felt real. You were the dream the taught me I did have a soul. I don’t know how low I will fall or what evil I will do, but I know you. 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

103. “That’s how we roll,” Kami said. “We live a mock-and-roll lifestyle.”

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104. “Magic lands in books had always seemed close to nature, but in a nice way, without all the unpleasant details.”

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105. “Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

106. “Two harpies, one stone,” he added, and then saw the way Serene was looking at him. “A diplomatic stone! A diplomatic stone.”

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107. “Kami concentrated on the scarecrows going by and scribbled: “Write in your notebook to avoid this awkward moment!” Angela.”

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108. “Nick spoke for the first time. “Can I go to the nurse’s office too?” Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. “No.” “I’m traumatized too,” Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. “He’s a delicate flower,” Alan said under his breath.”

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109. “Elliot was left to trail behind. As he did, he thought about Luke talking about literary tropes – the fearless hero, the valiant heroine, and where did it all leave him? Sidekick: a horrible indignity, Elliot refused to accept it. And the other idea was some sort of lurking, jealous figure: an Iago, a pathetic pseudo-villain waiting in the wings to plot and bring the hero down. He wasn’t going to plot against Luke, who had dumb daffodil hair and said “tropez,” for God’s sake.”

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110. “Kami glanced over at Angela. Angela lay serenely with her hands folded across her chest and her lashes like black lace against her white cheeks. “You look so sweet when you sleep,” Kami said. “Like an emo ten-year-old’s first Vampire Bride Barbie. Pull the string on the back and she says cruel things to her hardworking friends.”

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111. “Maybe that is the only thing I have ever learned about love: love is when you save someone no matter what the cost.”

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112. “I’m not doing much, said Jared, warm in her mind, the amusement lingering. Just stuck in an elevator with this creepy Asian girl giving me a death glare.”

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113. “This place is starting to feel like a home away from home,” Rusty said, settling on the sofa. “We come here, we discuss evil sorcerers, we eat packets of peanuts. It’s a soothing and familiar routine. Or it would be if people would just bring me some peanuts.”

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114. “I bet he also didn’t mention that I stick pins into the eyes of everybody who annoys me. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is the man who was wise enough to only annoy me once.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

115. “I love you,” said Aunt Lillian. “And I’m sorry you were buried alive. I hope you get over it quickly.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

116. “It wasn’t her fault if Elliot had expressed his feelings wrong. He always did that, as if life were a dance where everybody else knew the moves but Elliot was constantly and fatally out of step.”

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117. “She did know that she liked the way happiness flooded back into his face, eyes on hers suddenly, warm and private, as if he was about to lean over to her and whisper the best secret ever.”

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118. “They were curved together like quotation marks with no words in between.”

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119. “If you must know, she is the one soul destined for my own, and we are going to be together forever,” he declared loftily. “That’s weird,” Luke told him. “We’re thirteen.”

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120. “Kami closed her latest book with a slam. She did not know why the townspeople had not risen up against the Lynburns years ago, frankly. Whatever happened to the folksy and charming tradition of storming the castle with burning torches and pitchforks?”

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121. “I read books, but I do it because I want to – because it’s like an escape in my head, like being with you.”

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122. “Abracadabra, moron.”

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123. “I don’t want to be friends with them, Dale.” He gave Dale the soulful look that he had practised on the elves. “I only want to be friends with you.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

124. “I do not know if you are not interested, or protecting yourself, but you cannot guard yourself against the whole world. You only succeed in placing a barrier between yourself from the world.” He hesitated. “I know that from personal experience.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

125. “I want to be hurt. I want to be in so much pain that I can’t think and I can’t remember why. That’s what I want. That’s all I want.”

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126. “Jared glared. Some people, Kami knew, had bedroom eyes. She was saddened to have to admit that Jared had filthy alleyway eyes.”

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127. “Being with you is the only definition of happiness I have.”

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128. “He had talked to her the same way when her grandmother died. Even though that had been different, had been an ordinary tragedy.”

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129. “One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. “Baa,” it flirted. “Boo,” said Jared. “Oh my God, Jared. Don’t tough-talk the lambs.”

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130. “She had to remember that there was power and magic in life: that when the sun laid a ray as warm as a hand on her head as they left the graveyard, it could be an unseen hand, reaching out to her with love. Only changed, and not strange forever.”

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131. “The first thing to do was slip away from her father, who might have questions about why she kept insisting on going back to the lair of ultimate evil. Kami saw why so many teenagers who had adventures in books were interestingly tragic orphans. Parents were a real buzzkill, adventure-wise.”

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132. “What do you mean, the police were suspicious because you weren’t wearing enough clothes?” Ash demanded, staring coldly at Jared. “Where were your clothes?”

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133. “Best if you think of this room as a minefield. Tread carefully or get exploded, she advised Jared, and then said aloud, “Hideous brats! We have a guest. Conceal evidence of your crimes.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

134. “Oh no, Nick” Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, “how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.”

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135. “One of the boringly human pair of boys, the obvious leader, was tall and broad-shouldered, with golden hair, as if Nature has said, ‘No worries, buddy, I gotcha, no nasty tiring thinking will ever be necessary, also have a crown.”

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136. “I wasn’t showing what I really felt. Real grief is ugly and uncomfortable. People look away from grief the same way they look away from severed limbs or gaping wounds. What they want is pain like death on a stage: beautiful, bloodless, presented for their entertainment.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

137. “Whoosh! went the bluebird of sarcasm, zooming miles above Dale’s head.”

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138. “Do not have a catfight, boys, even if it is that time of the month,” said Serene, and when she saw them staring at her, she explained: “You know – women shed their dark feelings with their menses every month? But men, robbed of that outlet, have strange moodswings and become hysterical at a certain phase of the moon?”

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139. “It was one of those nonsense things that people said, like “It’s not you, it’s me” and “You’re too good for me.” It meant, “I would like to very politely and very swiftly escape this relationship, like a Victorian gentleman in a rocket.”

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140. “Ash and Rusty were both objectively better-looking than he was; she remembered knowing that, even though it no longer felt true.”

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141. “There were certain kids at school who could only be described as mad, bad, and dangerous to teach, and Jared Moore was their king.”

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142. “A riddle wrapped up in an enigma, wrapped up in a giant pain in the ass. Well done, Kami.”

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143. “That Kami Glass, people must say as she went by. About as sexy as a teapot.”

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144. “Angela Montgomery was in the hall, shadows and her own long black hair wrapping around her. Ash could see only her face, which gave the impression that she was a beautiful human Cheshire cat, come not to smile but to look deeply disdainful of everything.”

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145. “Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed... You’re going to be that one writer, one day, for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you’re going to write – but you.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

146. “Also, vampires don’t eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I’d rather die.”

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147. “Anyone would love him, but I do not know if anyone could love him as much as I do.”

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148. “I’ll do a deal with you McFarlane,” he said. “You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or make any sudden movements, I shall die. And that’ll show you.” Seb shrugged in return, hiding how pleased he was pretty badly. “Fair enough.”

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149. “There had been talk of cutting Luke from Trigon, but then everyone on Luke’s team had wept and had nervous breakdowns at the idea of cutting Luke from Trigon, so nobody talked about it anymore.”

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150. “You do not have any masculine attributes that could be compared to other men’s: it would be ridiculous if you did, since you could have only the most minuscule difference between one man’s attribute and the other.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan