D.N. Bryn > Quotes

“You know, this is the first place that’s felt like a home to me in a long time. In forever, really. But since you’ve been gone, it’s just a house again.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager

“We’re all living an existence we don’t deserve; we all have been given too much or too little and sometimes both at once. And wherever we can’t change that, we just have to do our best with it, to take care of those we love—and that should include ourselves. It has to include ourselves. We all deserve that, at least.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love

“Ah, yes, a vampire’s two worst fears: angry cat and pointy stick.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck

“There’s nothing more attractive than a handsome vampire explaining his nerdy passions while wearing a rumpled suit in the middle of the night.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love

“Oh, yes, was I not clear? The thing I find glorious is that you are a tiny, spiteful gremlin.”
― D.N. Bryn, The Stars and the Stage

“Love is imperfect—it’s downright fucked up sometimes, honestly—but you can’t manhandle it into shape and you can’t force anyone to be yours.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love

“That was what dreams were for—getting you horny in circumstances that made your waking self reevaluate your sanity.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager

“The teenagers should have run. Most kids from the surrounding neighborhoods are would have. But not these, wielding their Caucasian ancestry and designer labels like shields as their expressions hardened.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love

“Trust is a funny thing; half logic, half nonsense.”
― D.N. Bryn, Our Bloody Pearl

“You are not responsible for the way you internalize the trauma inflicted on you, only whether you turn around and inflict that pain on others.”
― D.N. Bryn, The Stars and the Stage

“You need more than just bravery in this life. You need safety too.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck

“When his gaze darted to Vincent's still trembling hands, the expression fell. It was like turning out a light, except the light was as much inside Vincent as it was on Wesley's face.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager

“I just thought, I don't know, that you wouldn't want it from me? I'm kind of pathetic, as vampires go. I don't make for a dramatic, mysterious predator. I'm like the grimy sewer variety of a vampire that you shoo off your lawn with a broom.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager

“…a man with a broken moral compass antagonizing a vampire who’d been aggressively hitting his own compass on the sides of things to make sure it still worked, and possibly making things worse in the process.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love

“The touch felt oddly like sunlight and a Santa Ana wind, and it left a flutter in Clementine’s stomach.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love

“What he felt for Justin was purely platonic, and clinging to the idea of more would be making mountains out of mole hills, setting himself up for disappointment in the long run. Simply because he wanted to be demisexual didn't mean he was.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love

“Have you never been afraid to want something before?”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck

“It took them a moment to place exactly where the emotion was coming from: it was weakness. Not a lack of strength, but the thought of being able to let go. Of having a shield. Of being able to breathe, and to breathe deeper, because there was someone standing at their back.”
― D.N. Bryn, The Stars and the Stage

“But then he slipped the end of the blade beneath their chin and delicately tipped it up. Even in this place, standing between life and death, Diego felt the beauty in the motion, the thrill of staring up the length of a blade into the face of someone who could have easily shoved the tip in but had chosen to stay their hand instead.”
― D.N. Bryn, The Stars and the Stage

“It becomes a kind of recurring loop, where your interactions with media feed into real life, then real life feeds back into media, in order to create something more complex than either on their own, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. But when people engage with kindness and empathy as their foundation, I think those interactions are mostly positive ones.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager

“We are in the business of handing out second chances, not denying them.”
― D.N. Bryn, The Stars and the Stage

“It felt like running a marathon. But even marathons, his therapist reminded him, were run one step at a time.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager

“I want to be here for as long as I can, but after that I want to be the breath in someone’s lungs, and the crisp water they drink on a hot afternoon, the iron that pumps through their veins. I hope the words I write will have a direct, positive impact while I’m here, but once I’m not, my very body will have that impact instead.

Unless someone sticks me in a coffin, in which case I’ll just be dead forever.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck

“Everything in Wesley begged to call him back.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager

“Was it you who ate my father?”
― D.N. Bryn, Our Bloody Pearl

“Danger, danger, emotional collapse incoming.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck

“Justin seemed to know just how to enter and end a conversation, how to take the reins when Clementine needed him to and offer them back when he didn’t, how to ground Clementine in the moment and let him enjoy the chaos of life without feeling as overwhelmed by it all.”
― D.N. Bryn, How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love