The Turn of the Story Quotes

“Do not have a catfight, boys, even if it is that time of the month,” said Serene, and when she saw them staring at her, she explained: “You know—women shed their dark feelings with their menses every month? But men, robbed of that outlet, have strange moodswings and become hysterical at a certain phase of the moon?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“Your loss,” Elliot said to both of them, and shut the door.

That was love: Elliot couldn’t command it, couldn’t demand it. He could only leave the chill echoing place where it was not.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“Does [killing people] get easier, Elliot thought … or is it just that you shut doors in your own heart, and never open them again for fear of what is behind them?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“Are you telling me that I have magical powers … because I can’t walk through walls? That dosen’t seem right.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“Whoosh! went the bluebird of sarcasm, zooming miles above Dale’s head.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“She hesitated, wiping her hands off on her apron. “I’m not sure if I’ll be here when you get back. This place is a little—it’s a little much for me.”
She didn’t have to tell him how it was. He had lived here for years, in a house that wanted to be silent until the silence was broken by a certain step and a certain voice, in a house holding its breath for someone’s return. If anyone held their breath long enough, they were dead.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“Hello,” said the beautiful elven maid. “I was just thinking, and I mean no offence, but—how can any fighting force crowded with the softer sex hope to prevail in battle?”
“Huh?” said Elliot, brilliantly. “The softer what?”
“I refer to men,” said the elf girl. “Naturally I was aware the Border guard admitted men, and I support men in their endeavor to prove they are equal to women, but their natures are not warlike, are they?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“It was lucky that snarking at Luke was habit by now: Elliot remembered a line from a book he’d read once, that habit was second nature, and nature stronger than the first. It was a comfort, to have a natural expression rather than one he had to pin on.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story

“So far magic school was rubbish.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Turn of the Story