Kylie Brant > Quotes

“Monsters looked just like the rest of us. And somehow, that made them even scarier.”
― Kylie Brant, Pretty Girls Dancing

“They’d said it would get easier. They’d lied.”
― Kylie Brant, Pretty Girls Dancing

“Whoever said kids could be cruel had made a gross underestimation”
― Kylie Brant, Pretty Girls Dancing

“If there was one thing their family dynamics proved, it was that everyone managed trauma differently. They all had their own ways of getting by.”
― Kylie Brant, Pretty Girls Dancing

“After Kelsey had been taken, she’d quickly learned that people had a finite tolerance for the suffering of others. Empathy went only so far before their personal comfort levels maxed out, and they started backing away from displays of grief.”
― Kylie Brant, Pretty Girls Dancing

“Or if, like her, they immersed themselves in trivialities in a frantic effort to avoid a yawning inner emptiness that sometimes threatened to swallow them whole.”
― Kylie Brant, Pretty Girls Dancing

“Once you’ve been at another’s mercy you swear to yourself it will never happen again. You’ll get stronger, smarter, and history will never repeat itself because you’ve grown and changed and you’re not the same person anymore.”
― Kylie Brant, Waking Evil

“She grabbed her jacket, although the weatherman had promised a return to seasonable temperatures. But given his record, she saw no reason to trust him. What other occupation got to retain their jobs when they were right only half the time?”
― Kylie Brant, Deadly Dreams

“Cam shot a glare at a driver in a bright red Camry in the lane next to his who was more concerned with her cell phone than she was in keeping her car from drifting over the line. “Neighbors said the couple used to fight. A suitcase was packed.”
― Kylie Brant, Touching Evil

“I’m hardly a stranger to the concept of bending rules to achieve a greater good.”
― Kylie Brant, Deadly Sins

“People didn't always act the way they should. Not even grown-ups. Sometimes the people who were supposed to protect you from monsters were monsters themselves.”
― Kylie Brant, Cold Dark Places

“The only thing unique about this offender was that his rationalization was cloaked in religion. “For the truly devout, they might provide rationale for”
― Kylie Brant, Deadly Sins

“agent was only back because Adam had brought some pressure to bear in the right places, but there was no reason for Hedgelin to know that. The man was right about one thing—Shepherd was a good agent. Even if he and Jaid were having absolutely no luck with Lambert.”
― Kylie Brant, Deadly Sins

“…unless you’ve got a thing for women with stratospheric IQ’s and abysmal taste in men. It’d taken her a long time to recognize that she consistently chose males who didn’t see her only their own reflection in her. Once she figured that out she started to regain a measure of her self respect..”
― Kylie Brant, Waking the Dead

“he had had the time and inclination, he’d have her pulled over and arrested for driving while stupid. “You said it yourself,” Sophie said with some heat. “The scene was”
― Kylie Brant, Touching Evil

“Afraid to reach for something in case it didn’t work out. I didn’t know then that if we don’t make a grab for happiness when we can, we might never get another chance.” Mia”
― Kylie Brant, 11

“Without hope, what would be the use of going on?”
― Kylie Brant, Pretty Girls Dancing

“The fact that the victims are single allows them to make bank withdrawals without a cosigner.”
― Kylie Brant, Chasing Evil

“Life is people and people are memories. I keep my memories close by taking pictures, you see?”
― Kylie Brant, Cold Dark Places

“The toughest part of life isn't death after all. It's living and dealing with our pasts.”
― Kylie Brant, Waking Nightmare

“nothing had changed in the years apart.”
― Kylie Brant, Deadly Sins

“But if it’s true, I hope that’s gutted you every day since. I hope your life’s a misery knowing that when Kelsey needed you most, you were fucking a twenty-two-year-old and too busy to go look for her.”
― Kylie Brant, Pretty Girls Dancing

“Hank”
― Kylie Brant, What the Dead Know

“Reaching out, he took her hand. “We’re going to be ready. Whether it’s tonight, tomorrow or the next day . . . we’ll be prepared. I won’t let anyone hurt you or the kids.”
Relief flickered across her face. “This isn’t your fight. I feel guilty for making it seem like it is. But I’m also glad you’re here and that makes me feel guilty again, so . . . ”
“Guilt’s a useless emotion.” He made peace with that much in rehab. It was useless to feel guilty that he’d made it home alive from Pakistan when some of his team mates hadn’t been so lucky. Equally worthless was his guilt over his sense of loss about his leg when Colton hadn’t come home at all. “You need the kind of help I can provide. And I don’t mind helping. I’ve always . . . ” Liked you, is what he meant to say. Maybe cared a little. But his throat stopped working and the words remained trapped in his brain. Which had become strangely disconnected with logic. Because instead of saying more, he leaned in slightly and kissed her.”
― Kylie Brant

“…none of us get through life unscathed…We all have to find a way to live with pain without letting it define us.”
― Kylie Brant, Deep as the Dead

“It’s not like that. You don’t understand.” Jaid and Shepherd stepped toward the man in tandem. Taking out her cuffs, she said, “What I understand is that you’re under arrest for conspiracy to commit murder.”
― Kylie Brant, Deadly Sins

“You haven’t become anything,” she whispered. “You’re the same man I fell in love with nearly ten years”
― Kylie Brant, Deadly Sins

“Dealing with the loss of Kelsey should have made her more attuned to the agony of others,”
― Kylie Brant, Pretty Girls Dancing

“shoulder against the doorjamb of the bathroom, looking surprisingly alert given the”
― Kylie Brant, Facing Evil

“A man who would ask you to change isn’t someone who deserves you in his life. You’ve got more guts than anyone I know, Mia. You’ve got the courage to reach for something good, too.” He”
― Kylie Brant, 11