Tell the Wind and Fire Quotes

“You were not the first dream I ever had, but you were the only dream that ever felt real. You were the dream the taught me I did have a soul. I don't know how low I will fall or what evil I will do, but I know you. I know there is nothing between us and there never could be. But I would do whatever you asked. I would do anything you want. If I had anything Worth giving to you, I would give it. If I had anything to sacrifice, I would sacrifice it for you.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“I wasn’t showing what I really felt. Real grief is ugly and uncomfortable. People look away from grief the same way they look away from severed limbs or gaping wounds. What they want is pain like death on a stage: beautiful, bloodless, presented for their entertainment”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“I know there is nothing between us and there never could be. But I would do whatever you asked. I would do anything you want. If I had anything worth giving to you, I would give it. If I had anything to sacrifice, I would sacrifice it for you.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“You were going into the Light city without a pass?” Ethan said. “That’s a crime.”
“I guess we don’t know each other that well yet,” Carwyn observed. “It’s possibly time to talk about some of my hobbies and interests. One of my hobbies is crime.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Maybe that is the only thing I have ever learned about love: love is when you save someone no matter what the cost.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“I said very quietly, “Do you think you might need to go to the bathroom at any point in the near future?”
“Uh,” said Carwyn, “what? No. What?” He paused. “I want you to know that was my first time,” he added. “Not knowing what to say to someone. I always have something to say.”
“Well, your first time didn’t last long, but I guess that’s always how it goes,” I said.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Why did you do it?” Ethan asked suddenly. “Why save my life?”
Carwyn looked at me. I had to admit, I was curious to know the answer as well. It didn’t seem like the kind of thing a doppelganger would do. “It was a whim. It was that or buy the weird cheese-and-crackers package off the food cart.”
I had honestly not expected a doppelganger to be sassy.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“People will come up with a hundred thousand reasons why other people do not count as human, but that does not mean anyone has to listen.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“If I could choose where to go, " Carwyn resumed, as if I had not spoken at all. "If I could go anywhere in the world, I'd want to go with you. I don't want to be where it's safe. I want to be where you are.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Love was the mystery nobody could solve, the fairy tale everyone loved to listen to and not quite believe in.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Tell the wind and fire where to stop. But don’t tell me.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Doppelgangers:coming for your soul and your leftovers,”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“You’re here to express your appreciation by proposing a kinky doppelganger ménage à trois? In which case, I’m going to have to turn you down. I’m sad to say it, but Ethan gives me the impression he’d be about as exciting in the sack as an eggplant.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“An icon didn’t do anything of its own volition. A symbol didn’t act of its own accord. Both cities projected what they wanted onto me, and wanted me to stay still as they did it.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Anyone would love him, but I do not know if anyone could love him as much as I do.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Once you lose something, it tends to stay gone. This is especially true with chances.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Happiness is self-sabotage, a mean trick that your own mind plays on you. It makes you careless, makes you lose your grip and once you lose your grip, you lose everything. You certainly aren't happy anymore.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“I saw now how different the same features could seem when they were illuminated by different spirit.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“I saw strangers’ faces passing me, a brief sympathetic glance, a wolf whistle from a car at the soaking-wet girl. No help was to be found anywhere: the city at night moved pitilessly on.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire: A Romantasy of Doppelgängers, Daring, and Dark Deceit by the author of Long Live Evil

“I know what you’re thinking,” said David Brin, the finance minister, coming up to me. “That all this is a shocking waste of money.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire: A Romantasy of Doppelgängers, Daring, and Dark Deceit by the author of Long Live Evil

“Okay, Uncle Mark. So I have fairly liberal views, right? Me and my girlfriend from the Dark town, me and my whining about fair treatment and justice and free tiny pink unicorns for all. This military ball is going forward, even though we have blood, broken cages, and whispers in the streets. I talk and talk, but I don’t really do a damn thing, do I?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“People always hate those they rely on. I should know. As Mark spoke, I held his hand fast, leaned against him, smiled for the cameras in the circle of his protection, and I could not imagine hating anyone more.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire