Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover's handkerchief.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

I've noticed people in India have developed a habit of hugging around people. I don't understand it now. I wanted to be hugged when I was young. Now, if someone wants to hug me, I feel only claustrophobic.

I can use all the hugs I can get.

As I get older, people do come up to me just to give me a hug.

I think it's human nature that if we don't have our own family, we will create a family, because it's human nature, and it's that element of trust and dependency and love and all of those sort of things.

It is a heartening experience to know that you are loved and being missed.

She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able to walk?" Zeke is quiet for a few seconds. His eyes shift over my face, and he squints, as if weighing and measuring me. Then he turns and bends and wraps his arms around me. it's been so long since someone hugged me that I stiffen. Then I relax, and let the gesture force warmth over my body.

And she's fair I love.

Go home, Gideon. Please." "I am home." He caught me from behind and buried his face in mu soaked hair. "I'm with you.

Your face is my heart

You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it." "I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it." And then he took me to the bed.

Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.

I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that.

Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.