Places No One Knows Quotes

“I assumed it was a matter of time. One day I’d meet someone who counteracted my chemical structure. We would compete for supremacy, collide until one of us was forced to yield, or else go forth together, suspended in eternal stalemate. But my model is inaccurate. The poets are wrong. The opposite of ice isn’t fire. It’s water.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I want to be William Shakespeare and Galileo and Robert Frost. I want to be Sappho. I want to be Jane Austen. I want to be Holden Caulfield and Marilyn Monroe and Joan of Arc. I’m sad to think they came before me in history, they made their mark without me.
But they were there.
They happened.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“Your gods don't know you exist.
And that's okay.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“The world is under no obligation to be sane or orderly.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“Sometimes you do things that feel bad later just so you don't feel worse right now.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“If we were having this conversation, that meant something was either wrong with me, or it was wrong with everybody else, and I had a basic enough understanding of probability to know that the odds did not rest with an entire planet.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“He understands me- how I am. If I forget to come up for air, he reminds me. If i get too literal or too focused, he doesn't take it personally. I'm better at loving him than anyone else, because he never makes me guess what he needs. And because he lets me.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“Why are you so determined to destroy yourself?" I say, and my voice is very small.
"I don't know," he whispers back. "Why are you?”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“The effectiveness of your persona is inversely proportional to what people know about you.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“It's not luck, Waverly. I mean yeah, to find someone who really gets you, maybe that's luck, but if you treat people like they matter, they remember it.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“It's more like they know a language I've never encountered. A dialect you can only speak with someone who actually understands you.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I am insubstantial. A tangled, vaporous creature that lives in my brain, almost wholly imaginary. I can be here with him as easily as I can inhabit a sonnet or an organic molecule, or crawl inside a math problem.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“Autumn is not nobody, but a real, actual force of nature. She is so much more than just some run-of-the-mill person. She's Bette David and Dorothy Parker and Madonna. Autumn is Tyler Durden and Tony Soprano. Autumn is Cthulhu, Destroyer of Worlds.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I start, because if I don't, then everything just stays the same.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I want to be still and small, and not have to man up or act like everything's okay, but the thing about living in a house where someone is sick is, it's like they have a monopoly on it. If one person is always needing things , then no one else is really allowed to.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“It's hazardous, though, being that much to someone. When you're the yardstick that everything else is measure against, eventually, you just fail.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“How can you do that?" I whisper.
"Do what?"
"Just say things- say how you feel."
He shrugs. "I don't know. I guess I figure I'm going to regret it either way. Might as well."
"That is the saddest thing I've ever heard."
He laughs softly in my hair. "Maybe. But its better than not being able to say it at all.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“The way he's looking at me is like I'm the only beating heart in the world.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I thought he made me a different person altogether, but maybe I was always holding those pieces inside me, waiting for a chance to use them.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I'm better at being sorry.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“She was so much better than normal life," I say. "She made me better."
Autumn glances over and shakes her head. "Don't. That's not how it works. Nobody makes you be anything. You just are that, whether you like it or not."
She doesn't sound angry, but like she's explaining the world.
"That, then," I say, looking at the empty baseball diamond. "That's what I meant. Just that when I was with her, I was allowed to be better.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I have never seen two people so in love, and so completely untouchable.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“Look, you don't want to put the power in the hands of the people, okay? You're just going to get three hundred write-in votes for My Dick.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“...the bad thing was that Ollie started crying. It was this basic rule of middle school that if someone messed with you, you were supposed to just take it like a psychopath. Only Ollie wasn't one.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“Everything smells like mildew, and the grim commitment to filth that can only be cultivated by post-adolescent boys.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“The last time I was this close to him, it was a commotion of touching. His hands, picking apart the rigid panels of my exoskeleton. His mouth, finding mine with the certainty of a meteor.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“Girl cut from marble needs no one, when it should have said, I have been so lonely for so long that I have almost stopped breathing.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I'm so fucking real that it hurts.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“There’s something awful about the sun.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“He sighs, smiling a resigned little smile. "Waverly, you make me want to die, but it's in the best way. You have no idea.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows