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“Elliot was trying to teach himself trollish via a two-hundred-year-old book by a man who’d had a traumatic break-up with a troll. This meant a lot of commentary along the lines of “This is how trolls say I love you. FOOTNOTE: BUT THEY DON’T MEAN IT!”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“If you must know, she is the one soul destined for my own, and we are going to be together forever,�� he declared loftily. “That’s weird,�� Luke told him. “We’re thirteen.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“I don’t need you to explain to me the concept of a magical land filled with fantastic creatures that only certain special children can enter. I am acquainted with the last several centuries of popular culture. There are books. And cartoons, for the illiterate.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Oh no,�� Elliot moaned, and sat down heavily on his bunk bed. “This is magic Sparta.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Elliot finished his book in bed and pondered going to get another one. He only had so much time left, and he had so many books to get through.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“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

“There isn’t any kind of relationship that’s all problem-free delightful unicorns. You can’t have a relationship without issues and prejudices. The way to be equals is if both people agree to be equals, and treat themselves and each other as equals, despite all that.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Violence was like that, Elliot had noticed. One move toward it and all at once everything was allowed: anyone could be hurt, out of a mix of pride and anger and stupid disregard for the fact that you could be hurt as easily as someone else.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“All over the gray facade of his father's house in scarlet letters he wrote: ELLIOT SCHAFER. He almost added: "was here" but did not, partly because it was a little too cliched vandal for him, and partly because it did not encompass all he wanted to say: was here, is no longer here, is somewhere almost unimaginably different, is all right.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“The murderous, man-hating elf girl, and the intense gay kid?' asked the medic. 'You’re the weirdo table.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand Katniss was being pursued by the mutts? You have several children, why does it always have to be about collecting the whole set all the time?)”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy

“Really, Sunborn? No, really. All right then. Tell me about computers.�� “Well . . .�� Luke said, and looked shifty about the eyes. “They’re boxes . . . but you can write things in them. And read things in them. And there are cats in them who are funny for some reason. They’re like—boxes of infinity. And! You keep the wikipedia in them!”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“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

“I do not know if you are not interested, or protecting yourself, but you cannot guard yourself against the whole world. You only succeed in placing a barrier between yourself from the world." He hesitated. "I know that from personal experience.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Elliot was left to trail behind. As he did, he thought about Luke talking about literary tropes—the fearless hero, the valiant heroine, and where did it all leave him? Sidekick: a horrible indignity, Elliot refused to accept it. And the other idea was some sort of lurking, jealous figure: an Iago, a pathetic pseudo-villain waiting in the wings to plot and bring the hero down. He wasn’t going to plot against Luke, who had dumb daffodil hair and said “tropez,�� for God’s sake.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Maybe both our societies are messed up, and they each only think one type of person is really a person. And the type of person they think is really a person is allowed to show imperfections and age . . . whereas the type of person they think is an object should show no signs of being a person. We’re socialized to see the imperfections in those objects.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“He could change something, maybe, even if he could not change enough.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“You should want to have gifted students who may excel in both courses, and you should be encouraging students when they show interest in their studies. Do you not want warriors who are brilliant, and diplomats who are brave?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Fourteen wasn't horrible, but it was more complicated, and sometimes that felt like the same thing.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It's easy to understand why people do bad things. It's like "Yeah, okay, you're selfish and scared and cruel, I get it." Being good is complex and beautiful and hard.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan

“You think people make choices? No, people think they make choices, they think they're gonna steer right, or steer left, but they didn't build the roads. The big choices already got made for them, a long time ago.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan

“I have done some of the best work of my life because of you. And I know you have done some of the best work of your life because of me. I don’t know a better way to explain what love means to two people like us.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“She feels like spine of a book about to crack and spill out all the love story guts.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“High school matters because it shapes how we see the world when we enter it. We carry the hurt with us, the confirmed fears, the insecurities people used against us. But we also carry the moment when someone gave us a chance, even though they didn't have to. The moment we watched a friend make a choice we didn't understand at first because they're brave in a different way. The moment a teacher told us they believed in us. The moment we told someone who we are and they accepted us without question. The moment we felt in love.
"Most of the things we are feeling right now are things we're feeling for the first time. We're learning what it means to feel them. What we mean to one another. Of course that matters.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“Shame is a way of life here. It's stocked in the vending machines, stuck like gum under the desks. Spoken in morning devotionals. She knows now that there's a bit of it in her.

It was an easy choice not to go back in the closet when she got here, but if she'd grown up here, she might never have come out at all. She might be a completely different person.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“If I seem confident, it’s because I have to. You, of all people, know what I mean.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“Of course. Of course Shara gave her this instead of an explanation. Of course Shara cast herself as the main character of her own personal John Green novel.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“Call me old-fashioned, but a man's place is in the basement, preparing vocal exercises for his more talented wife”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“So," Benji says when Chloe finds Georgia next to him, "I know things have been crazy, but I just wanted to say, oh my god! Shara Wheeler is in love with you, and Georgia has been secretly dating a member of the Homecoming Court. Like, what is going on?? Also, when do I get a hot person??"

"I saw you flirting with Ace," Chloe counters.

"Yeah, he's, like, Dodge Truck Month level straight. I'm not wasting my time.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler