“ In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that… Brenna Yovanoff
“ The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war. Brenna Yovanoff
“ Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These ar… Brenna Yovanoff
“ He is broken in three ways, sometimes four. I count them.-He believes himself to be human, but is not actually. At least not anymore. This is similar to the way he believes himself to be alive.-He has… Brenna Yovanoff
“ What kind of people?"The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark and the dust of abandoned strip min… Brenna Yovanoff
“ I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property ar… Brenna Yovanoff
“ Running is like music. It requires rhythm and focus. It requires dedication. It requires a dogged ability to shut out everything else. The herd is strung out below me, keeping time with the thump and… Brenna Yovanoff
“ From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud some… Brenna Yovanoff
“ You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world. Brenna Yovanoff
“ There was so much about our past that I still didn't understand, and I wasn't one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, an… Brenna Yovanoff
“ Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better th… Brenna Yovanoff
“ Why does she always seem to think you drive like we're holding up a bank?"Roswell grinned and rolled his eyes, "Because that's what teenagers do, right? They also carve swastikas into their arms, stea… Brenna Yovanoff
“ You can't keep acting like this," Lillian says, and for the first time in months, it's like she's actually trying to be nice. "Tragedy isn't this evil thing that came from outer space. It's just there… Brenna Yovanoff
“ Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without co… Brenna Yovanoff
“ All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now. Brenna Yovanoff
“ Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll say we're ghosts, angels, demons, elemental spirits, and giv… Brenna Yovanoff
“ Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love. Brenna Yovanoff
“ My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed. Brenna Yovanoff
