Top 200 Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Does it get easier? Elliot thought, looking at her still pale face. Or is it just that you shut doors in your own heart and never open them again for fear of what is behind them?”

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152. “Have mercy, Dad,” said Kami. “Tell me you’re here to rescue me before they break out the Jell-O.”

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153. “Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren’t even real. All I ever wanted was you.”

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154. “She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.”

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155. “Violence was like that, Elliot had noticed. One move toward it and all at once everything was allowed: anyone could be hurt, out of a mix of pride and anger and stupid disregard for the fact that you could be hurt as easily as someone else.”

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156. “There weren’t words anymore, just a rush of hate and love and rage and such fear, the black terror that had overwhelmed Jared in the lift, the fact that she had never been real and it had been unbearable and now she was real and it was just as unbearable. The thought that someone who existed in real life might betray you.”

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157. “Kami wondered if she should count it as a victory that he did not seem to be actively attempting to foil her plan of going out with him. Of course, he wasn’t actively participating in it either, so maybe it was a draw.”

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158. “All Ash had ever wanted was to be at home and surrounded by his family. Now, under the judgmental gaze of a hundred Lynburns, with a sneering Lynburn voice in his ear, he started thinking about the merits of running away and changing his name. “Ash Smith” had a certain ring to it.”

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159. “I don’t like wizard stories all that much. Stories about witches are better, because witches are morally ambiguous and traditionally disempowered.”

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160. “Very romantic,” said Lillian, her voice now like the sound of snapping dry bones in her bare hands. “A middle-aged Romeo, and a Juliet who wants a divorce.”

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161. “I wish all the sorcerers in the world had just one throat,” Angela announced. “So I could punch them in it.”

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162. “If I wasn’t going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn’t have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.”

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163. “Keeping everything very cool and professional, I see, Cadet,” remarked Commander Woodsinger as he went by. Elliot did not know why the two most important women in his life had to be deadpan snarkers.”

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164. “Do me a favour and go out and perform one of the activities I hear the youth enjoy this Friday, like defacing public property.”

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165. “Nick is driving us,” Jamie informed him. “Nick has a car. Nick has TWO cars. Ha!”

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166. “I don’t really know how dating works,” Jared told her. “High school for me was mostly musical numbers. That’s how it is in the States, you’ve seen the movies. Every time someone had an emotional dilemma or epiphany, they would burst into song, and we would all have to break out into perfectly choreographed dance sequences. It took a lot of intensive training. So many jazz squares, no time for love.”

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167. “They should’ve built a city on rock and roll.”

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168. “I suppose some were born acting, some achieve action, and some have action thrust upon while they wail feebly ‘Dear God, no, let me sleep in.’ I’m only acting once, and then never again.”

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169. “She’d always thought she was sensible about romance: she hadn’t ever wanted any sort of wild destructive passion that would interfere with college applications. She had thought love would change the story she told about herself too much, that love would make her story less smart or less meaningful. She’d had Jared in her head all the time, though. She’d had love already. Only those who already had love could afford to dismiss it.”

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170. “You’re dying every minute, but you won’t die yet.”

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171. “Seriously,” said Kami, her voice faint. “I think I left the oven on at home. Or the iron. Possibly both.”

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172. “I saw now how different the same features could seem when they were illuminated by different spirit.”

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173. “Jared felt vaguely unsettled that she’d noticed. He wasn’t used to adults scrutinizing his behavior. He hadn’t meant to take take so many booksbut they were the kind he liked, about made-up olden days when the world made sense, about death and love and honor.”

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174. “He couldn’t imagine his father going to school and antagonizing everyone in sight, being too short, too smart, too awkward, too unguarded, too wildly unused to company, until it was easier eventually to antagonize people on purpose.”

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175. “There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.”

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176. “Elliot finished his book in bed and pondered going to get another one. He only had so much time left, and he had so many books to get through.”

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177. “He was not going to move a muscle, and he was going to read near a radiator, and he would not have to see Serene’s relief that the situation was resolved, and he would not almost get anyone killed. He would not have to try so hard because his father would not notice anything he did, and perhaps he would finally stop feeling cold.”

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178. “Love was the mystery nobody could solve, the fairy tale everyone loved to listen to and not quite believe in.”

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179. “Lillian walked into every room as if she owned it. She walked across this one as if she owned it but was slightly horrified to find herself there, like a queen in a basement.”

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180. “Torture at night, human sacrifice in the morning, healthy exercise at noon. What could possibly be on the schedule for the evening?”

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181. “I hear girls like bad boys. I hope that’s true. Because, baby, I’m bad at practically everything.”

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182. “Oh, come on. What’s that thing you say? The past is another country. You make out with different people there.”

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183. “Oh, it’s a great book, it’s called None of Your Business by I’m Not Going To Tell You.”

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184. “Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can’t do is just sensible.”

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185. “She was kind of in love with him.”

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186. “I’d rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.”

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187. “I want to interfere horribly in my friends’ love lives and keep my own embarrassing and pathetic one private, is that so much to ask?”

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188. “I don’t look at anyone else like that. I don’t think about anyone else the way I think about you.”

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189. “You existing in the world is all I need.”

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190. “I did not fall. I climbed, to a place high enough that I could see clearly. Once I saw, I was certain.”

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191. “I propose that we just stop letting Lillian ‘Bad Idea’ Lynburn make plans,” Jon said. “I know she means well, but this is a lady who seems to never have had a good idea in her life.”

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192. “Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. “Is it no-shirts festival day?” “Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day,” Alan said absently, but he was frowning too.”

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193. “All over the gray facade of his father’s house in scarlet letters he wrote: ELLIOT SCHAFER. He almost added: “was here” but did not, partly because it was a little too cliched vandal for him, and partly because it did not encompass all he wanted to say: was here, is no longer here, is somewhere almost unimaginably different, is all right.”

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194. “So here’s the issue,” said Adara briskly. “Mr Fleetwood – ” “Was his first name Mac?” asked Elliot. “No, why would you ask that?” Adara snapped. “No reason,” Elliot told her, disappointed. “Continue.”

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195. “She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.”

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196. “I have all my books with me, obviously, and several library books,” Elliot answered. “What if I wished to consult a book and did not have the relevant volume on hand? Think about it.”

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197. “Friends don’t menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?”

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198. “The only possible response to someone telling you that they wanted to be friends, or that you were a great friend, was gratitude. Elliot had been friendless long enough that he knew friendship was a prize in itself.”

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199. “I thought you would like a weapon better than a rescue.”

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200. “How many fingers am I holding up?” he inquired. Lucille regarded him blearily and said, “Avocado.”

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