Brittany > Brittany's Quotes

“Aim for the kneecaps."

"Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the legs."

They both stared at him. Then Gabe shrugged. "That's actually pretty good advice."

"Excellent help, the both of you." Lore said.”
― Hannah F. Whitten

“When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it's a homicide.
When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it's a tragedy.
Don't use bullets. Use meteorites
Don't commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy.
-Guy McMaster”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“After all, it’s difficult to obtain a student loan for a school that not only denies its own existence but teaches its students how to deny other people theirs.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“And that, to me, embraces the very soul of the most important commandment you'll find anywhere in your Principles of Successful Termination: 'Do in others as you would have others do you in.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“OPERATING YOUR TABLE RADIO To hear Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto, turn radio ON. To not hear Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto, turn radio OFF.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“Do not ask for whom the bell tolls. Ask who would mourn in hearing it. If answer comes there none, then more power to you (especially if you are planning an electrocution.)”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“Men want power because it makes them feel good. Women want power because it lets us do things.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“I figured you should have something both beautiful and functional, like you."
He said it so quickly that it almost didn't register. I whipped my head around to look at him. "Max," I breathed, touching my heart with exaggerated awe, "you think I'm functional?"
A dancing smile glinted in his eyes. "I think," he said, "that you are breathtakingly functional.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“But isn’t having built something worth more than the fear of it being destroyed?”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“Destroying is easy. Creating is hard.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“A story is the thing that proves something existed between life and death.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“It began with a whisper and it will end with a scream. What comes between is still to be seen.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“I don't find it painful to be ordinary.”
― Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

“Even then, a part of me was afraid of death. I knew only want, and death is the end of wanting.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“It’s not all that hard to keep yourself sane, so long as you’re flexible with your definition of the term.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Some people are determined to live out their own personal tragedies.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“The hunted had fallen for the hunter.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“If you're still in a relationship, remember that just because you can get along with anyone doesn't mean you have to. If you're unhappy after having tried every way to make things work, chances are that you should move on. It's in your best interest to end a dysfunctional relationship rather than get stuck forever with the wrong person just because you're secure.”
― Amir Levine, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love

“It's important to remember that even with effective communication, some problems won't be solved immediately. What's vital is your partner's response--whether he or she is concerned about your well-being, has your best interests in mind, and is willing to work on things.”
― Amir Levine, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love

“Adulthood was all about compromises, wasn’t it? You decide what you need, what you want, and shift your priorities around until you find the least bad combination. Each compromise was a link in a chain, and if that chain dragged you down to the bottom of the East River? Well … at least you had Netflix and Spotify to distract you while you sank.”
― Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

“Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are.”
― Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

“I think Healing begins when you finally recognize there is no moving on. Only moving forward. You don’t actually leave anything behind. You carry it with you.”
― Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

“There is no greater weapon than knowledge.”
― Mindee Arnett, Onyx & Ivory

“The world is black and white and all the shades of grey in between.”
― Mindee Arnett, Onyx and Ivory

“...it's the steps themselves that make a path, instead of the other way round. We are creating even as we believe we are following.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“Sometimes busywork is the only thing holding back existential dread.”
― Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi