Brianna > Brianna's Quotes

“At the end of class, he stops me on my way out the door and hands me my essay on Lavinia from Titus Andronicus. I focused on her torn-out tongue and torn-off hands, her subsequent silence, the failure of language in the face of rape.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“The question slices a painless cut, shockingly clean.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“How easy it is to be tricked into building a narrative out of air. Out of nothing.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“His voice as soothing as a bomb.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
― Stephen McCranie

“Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“You see, the great thing about madness is that it's all in your head.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Oh, I wouldn’t say that. Work, my dear Blushweaver, is like fertilizer.”
“It smells?”
He smiled. “No, I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I’m glad it exists; I just don’t ever want to get stuck in it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“I don’t suppose you’d want to go destroy some evil, would you? the voice said. I’m not really sure what that means, to be honest. I’ll just trust you to decide.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“If you can keep your head while all those about you are losing theirs, then perhaps you have misunderstood the situation.”
― Daniel Keys Moran, The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time

“THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“One of the few appealing things about him was that he had figured out that his personality was a problem and, in classic “get it done” style, had hired a coach to make him less of an asshole. She could see that working in his face.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“You are totally overromanticizing dirt.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

“Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

“Graves are for the living, not the dead.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

“You don't need cheering up. You need a good shaking.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

“Breeding. It takes real breeding to make a person feel like shit with one
word.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

“Five a.m. was a largely theoretical concept to me. I knew it existed, but I rarely observed it.”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

“People will trust a reliable criminal more readily than a shady businessman.”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

“God damn it! I yelled to him. Will you stop wining about your problems during my murder!”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

“And if you want to make babies, somebody's got to get fucked.”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

“There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. Not that your father wasn't a nice guy and all, but... there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like they can't quite remember who they are. They look at the sky too much. They lose touch with their feet. They aren't a patch on a woman except they're better at fixing cars and playing football, just what we need for the improvement of the human race, right?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I've got a good head on my shoulders despite all this. I can take care of myself. Look at me. I'm okay. I'm fine.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“The excuses we make for them are outrageous, but they’re nothing compared with the ones we make for ourselves.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Sometimes it feels like that’s all I’m doing every time I reach out—trying to haunt, to drag him back in time, asking him to tell me again what happened. Make me understand it once and for all. Because I’m still stuck here. I can’t move on.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa