Fire & Heist Quotes

“It's not arrogant to know who you are.
It's powerful.
And I am powerful.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Fire & Heist

“Up in the room, I heard one of them say, "Did she say how she's getting to Gabriela's? You don't think she'll try to drive herself?"
"Nah," another said. "She has more sense than that."
Scooping up my bag, I ran for the garage and stole Liam's car.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Fire & Heist

“I think mascara is creepy," Liam volunteered. "Like lots of spider legs on a girl's eye. Really freaky part is if she starts to cry, and the spider legs dissolve and walk down her cheeks."
...
"Girls wear makeup to feel stronger. It's armor for your face. You guys are stuck with the faces you have, which, in your cases, is unfortunate.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Fire & Heist

“I decided right then and there that I didn't care what the rest of the class thought, so long as someday I'd become friends with you. Took you a long time to notice I was there.
- Gabriela, to Sky”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Fire & Heist

“None of them were recent, but that was the nature of family stories. They had to be far enough in the past that they took on a mythic quality.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Fire & Heist

“It takes me less than a minute to pick a pin-tumbler lock, but in that minute, anyone could wander into the hallway and say, "Sky, are you picking the lock on your mother's office?"

Dad.

I swear I have the nosiest family of all time. First Charles, now Dad. Couldn't anyone just mind their own business while I skulked around suspiciously?”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Fire & Heist

“The unicorn, still elegant and radiant, let out a tiny burp.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Fire & Heist

“I’d like to thank all the pizza and chocolate I consumed during the writing of this novel. This book wouldn’t exist without you. In particular, I’d like to call out a slice of balsamic tomato from Luigi’s Pizzeria for being my muse.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Fire & Heist