Rebecca Hanover > Quotes

“I smile, because I think I finally know who I am now, or who I might become, anyway. I think I might like her.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“It’s Levi. Levi, who carried Pru to safety from the boathouse. Levi, who loves classic novels as much as I do. Levi, who sees me for who I am and excepts the good along with the bad. Who’s never known me as anything less than complicated and broken. And who’s loved me anyway.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“Would living like that -with no thoughts, no identity, no way to survive- even be worth it? That thought is scarier than letting the smoke overtake us. Much scarier than dying here, together, knowing we did everything we could for the people we love.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“I'll be your best friend for fifty more years. And after that? You have to reapply.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Similars

“Prudence initiated you. You initiate Theodora.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Similars

“But we could die tomorrow. Or the next day, or the day after that.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“I feel our connection even as the world falls to pieces around us.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“I thought I’d lost you again.’
‘You didn’t. You won’t. Ever.’
‘Promise?’
‘Promise.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“If you're asking me to wear a ski mask, check the Darkwood handbook, Levi says. Page one hundred thirty-seven. Dress Code. Second Paragraph, fourth line. Prohibited item number forty-two: ski masks or other masks that cover the face.

Prohibited item number forty-two? Is this kid serious?”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Similars

“Levi runs his hands through his hair. My heart thuds so loudly in my chest, I'm sure he can hear it.

'Did we just-?" Levi asks.'

'Yes,' I answer softly, finally meeting his eyes.

'We don't even like each other,' he says.

'No,' I answer. 'We don't.'

For a minute, we're both silent.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Similars

“So we stand there, holding eachother.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“Then we found eachother.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“There are a few of you who may be here for other, questionable reasons, but it is entirely Headmaster Ransom’s business if he chooses to weight the stratum test in favor of certain…new transfer students. And scholarship students.” Madison looks right at Levi, Theodora, and Maude. “And scholarship students.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Similars

“It was always you, Emma.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“I don't actively want to die. Not all the time.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Similars