Brette Isaac > Brette's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It's tea time, Scoundrels!”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Why save the world when you can have tea?!”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“If he rubbed at his soul hard enough to get past the grime of the streets, he might even find optimism.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Let me bleed for you.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“That was the nature of man; born to nurture, determined to destroy”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“The dark is no place for a dove.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Touch her and, and you all will die, have I made myself clear?”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Waiting on you, habibti,” he called as she started down the stairs. She didn’t know what that meant and didn’t want to ask. It was likely an insult.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Aren’t you afraid?” she asked. “Fear stops life, not death,”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“You know, darling, not everyone needs to be threatened to work for you. It’s possible for someone to simply want to.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“He sighed but lifted his right hand and knocked the back of it against the back of hers, their knuckles rapping. "We were made for trouble, you and me.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“His lips curved. “Hello, Felicity. I’ve missed you.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“I'd rather be alone among the wolves I know than alone among those I don't.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Suspecting that no one will care if you're gone and then knowing it for certain are two different things.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She thought she had known what it felt like to blink into the shadows, to gasp for breath— to not know what horror might lurk around the next corner.

She thought she knew fear.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Blood calls to blood, and like to like.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“She'd take the rage of the living over the silence of the dead any day.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith

“Just because she is choosing a different life path from you does not give you the right to belittle her. She’s not doing anything wrong. She’s not hurting anyone. She simply wants a little red lipstick and a nice boy to notice her.’
‘But should’t she want more for her life than that?’
‘Why any woman wants for herself is not for you to decide. You would do well to remember this.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“A dead lover can never break your heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Love was a sacrifice at the altar of power.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“There you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You might destroy me anyway.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“There she is,”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“When your days are dark, you forget the existence of dawn.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal

“Life is not fair. We cannot help how the dice fall, but it’s our choice whether to keep playing.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal

“If this was weakness, he wanted to be weak. If this was sin, let him be damned to hell.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“I am Chinese mother, all I do is create conflict.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]

“Remember, Vera reminds herself, your ass is bad. Very bad. And that is a good thing.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)