Quote

Oh, she said, in a very different way. Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I'd love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Rees Brennan
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: September 21
Librarian
Writer
Airlan
Different
Controlled
Way
Naturally
Love
Thanks
Think
Hair
Thinking
Part
May
Washing
Wells
Compliment
Well
Watched

More quotes by Sarah Rees Brennan

Image
Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard. I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions, Kami told him, But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
Been chatting much with Jared? We often have special moments where I come into a room and he immediately leaves, Kami said. I treasure those times.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas? Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said I like swords. Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing You fence? Not exactly, Nick drawled. I'm more freestyle.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
I expected something a little more castle-shaped, said Jamie. Nothing lasts forever, Nick said. Except demons, of course. Has anyone ever told you that you're a charming conversationalist? Jamie asked. No, Nick replied honestly. I cannot tell you how much that surprises me, Jamie told him, and Nick gave him a half smile.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
How many fingers am I holding up? he inquired. Lucille regarded him blearily and said, Avocado.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
I don't think you're weak, Jared said. I want to guard you because you are important to me. Because you are - God, this is going to sound so stupid, I can never think of a way to say it - you are precious. I can never think of how to describe the value you have to me, because all the words for value suggest that you belong to me, and you don't
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
Nick scowled out the window. I have friends in Exeter already. I have-those people, you know, they hang around outside the bike sheds, they're always hassling Jamie. Those are some awesome dudes, Jamie muttered. Don't let them get away.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
In two words, said Alan quietly, there is nothing I love half as much as you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
It was all right. Nick thought about this and decided that what Alan said was true. He'd never been helpless before, not since he could remember, but now he was and everything was all right. He did not have to speak, he was not able to move, all he could do was lie there and have his brother hold him, hunched over and shielding him from the world.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
I wish, Jared began, and stopped, breathing in. Do you remember how you used to believe I wasn't real? Sometimes I wish that was true. If I was just a thought in the back of your mind, then I'd be with you, and I'd be better.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
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
Image
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.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
Okay, can you pass yourself off as a magician and gain Gerald's trust and pass us information about Celeste's plans and save all the magicians who want to be saved? Jaime asked. Because if so awesome. I shall stay here and eat pie.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
When a guy says,'I'll call you,' and he doesn't say when-that means he won't call you. Kit pulled his phone out of his pocket and pressed a couple buttons. My phone vibrated in my pocket. I fished it out, smiling. Madness, Kit whispered softly into his phone. I meant I'd call you. This is me calling you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
Turns out he does run, Nick drawled. Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking. That was not a shriek, Jamie said with dignity. It was a husky masculine cry of terror.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
He had called girls to him before. There was nothing so easy whether you were walking into a classroom, a club, or down the street. All you had to do was send out the right signals, give her the right look, turn your body the right way, and never for a moment let it cross your mind that she might not be interested.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Image
I was thinking. I see no evidence of that, Jared. Kami said.
Sarah Rees Brennan