Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sarah Rees Brennan
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: September 21
Librarian
Writer
Airlan
Likes
Trust
Everybody
Nice
Good
Men
More quotes by Sarah Rees Brennan
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
He only shot one person, Nick remarked. But the night is young. . . . Forgive him, he has no manners. I get by on good looks, Nick said.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling he was more of a loomer.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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.” It was giving me a funny look.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Remember, he called. Just be yourself, and everyone will love you! Nick rolled his eyes and made a rude gesture, and Alan drove the car away laughing.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi? Sin: Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.
Sarah Rees Brennan
You're weird, Nick grumbled, but he turned his face back to critically examine the new hand. You're weird, Jamie returned. As soon as this whole magical war is over, I'm going to make us some friendship bracelets, and we will wear them everywhere because we are best friends. Drop dead, said Nick, and Jamie looked serenely pleased.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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
In two words, said Alan quietly, there is nothing I love half as much as you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.
Sarah Rees Brennan
She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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
Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love be as important as romantic love, and to show that love can go through fire and darkness - not unchanged, because experiences like that change everyone - but never faltering
Sarah Rees Brennan
She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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
Chimes? Phyllis asked. Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you whatever song you most desire to hear? No thanks, said Nick. We've got MTV.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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
You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school. “They said that about all the great visionaries.” “You know who else they said it about?” Angela demanded. “All the actual crazy people.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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