Brittany Cavallaro Quotes

Brittany Cavallaro

Brittany Cavallaro is the author of Girl-King, which was an Editor’s Choice for the Akron Poetry Prize and was published by University of Akron Press in 2015. (Brittany Cavallaro Quotes)

“After I avoided all my calls for another day, Mrs. Dunham came by my room and politely told me that if she had to speak to my panicked mother one more time, ahe would very publicly set herself on fire.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“After Watson held a pillow so that I could punch it, after he’d cried in the bathroom where he thought I couldn’t hear, we put on sweatpants and went down to the twenty-four-hour-off-license and bought as much ice-cream as we could carry.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“And even so, before I had ever met Charlotte Holmes, I was sure she was the only friend I would make in that miserable place.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“As for Holmes, she disappeared into her magician’s trunk and swallowed the key. There would be no prying her out, not until the big reveal.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“At night this miniature city would grow as through it were itself dreaming.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“Beatrix’s workshop in the morning was not unlike the girl herself; eccentric, bright unexpectedly beautiful.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“Being a woman with a contrary opinion does not render me hysterical.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“But grief did strange things to you. Made you see yourself at a distance.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“But no matter how much she wanted it to be true, Claire didn’t grant her own wishes.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“But tonight I’ll go alone. You’re about as stealthy as a lame elephant. See you later.” She patted me on the shoulder and took off down the path, leaving me behind, both charmed and insulted. The side effects of hanging around Charlotte Holmes.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“Even if I wasn’t in love with her, I couldn’t see myself loving anyone else.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“Even someone as disguisting as Dobson deserved the chance to grow up and become a better person.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“Every version of you is interesting to me.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“For there are monster here that you have not yet met.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“Girls could be so profligate with their love, as though by spreading it wide, they would induce the world to love them back. As though the world wasn’t going to take that love and beat them with it.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“He had looked at a teenage girl, his teenage son’s girlfriend, and seen a shirley temple where he should have seen poison.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“He told you to stop being a numpty (Scottish for “a stupid,” I had to look it up and am now getting very strange ads on my phone) and to “get here already,” although he knows as well as I do that your break does not begin until next week.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“He wound his fingers into my hair and kissed me, a promise in a language I couldn’t yet speak.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“Holmes taught me that: people would much rather correct you than answer a straightforward question.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“Holmes wasn’t a myth, or a king. She was a person. And to have a relationship with a person, you had to treat them like one.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“Holmes, I don’t mind it. there are worse things in the world than making new friends. Murder. Kidnapping. Scorpions. “I’d take the scorpions over socializing any day.” (Brittany Cavallaro Quotes)
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“I am telling my own story.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“I began wondering if there was some kind of Watsonian guide for the care and keeping of Holmeses.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“I could tell he was lying. But it didn’t mean I knew what the truth was.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“I couldn’t atone for anyone’s mistakes, but I had two hands, and I could help.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“I don’t need someone to fight for me. I can fight for myself.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“I felt it. Felt everything. I knew I wanted to erase myself from the top down, like a drawing, and that still I wanted someone to touch my edges and tell me that they loved me despite them.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“I imagine she’d do anything to keep you alive. But giving her your heart is like handing a glass figurine to a child. She’ll flip it over, peer through it like a lends. Shake it to see if it makes a sound. In the end, it will slip her hands and shatter. In the end, it’s your fault. You were the one who gave it to her.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“I kept my own company. That was a polite way of saying that I was my own friend and if I want to be alone I’d have to get rid of myself.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“I love you. I’ve never in my life loved anything more.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down. After a while, they became more like a shorthand for who I was and less like things I actually enjoyed.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“I tried to fight the feeling that I was a guest star in my own life.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“I want to be good without being nice. Can I do that?”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“I wanted the two of us to be complicated together, to be difficult and engrossing and blindingly brilliant.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“I was maybe the only person to ever have his imaginary friend made real.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“I was somebody who only wanted to see the world through paintings, never a photograph.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“I’m a teenage girl. He is my boy best friend. We would be everything to each other until we couldn’t.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“I’d prefer to think that we aren’t all so mercilessly bound to our pasts.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“In that moment, I loved him more than anything else.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“It seemed like a good idea at the time.” “That’ll be written on a few tombstones before this is over”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“It’s strange to grieve for your former self, and still I think it’s something that any girl understands. I’ve shed so many skins, I hardly know what I am now—muscle, maybe, or just memory. Perhaps just the will to keep going.” (Brittany Cavallaro Quotes)
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“Just because you know something about yourself doesn’t mean you should be forgiven for it.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“Life is emphatically disappointing to those who expect it to be otherwise.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“Maybe this is what happened when you built a friendship on a foundation of mutual disaster. It collapsed the second things righted themselves, left you desperate for the next earthquake.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“My mother had been monologuing about how much I’d like it there while I packed up my closet in silence, wondering if I flung myself out the window, would it properly kill me or just break both my legs.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“No one else in the world would put up with this girl. “You are awful,” I said, and even then I was forgiving her.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“On the surface, his word were kind, but there was something glimmering under them, something sharp, like knife falling into a lake bed.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“Once, I had loved her so much it was like a needle through my heart. Maybe I still did. Somehow, though, it seemed beside the point.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“Reading took me away from myself, so I tried to be reading all the time.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“She has gone to sleep in a meadow and woken up on the moon.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“She is both a person and an idea. It is intrusting, to be a thing and not be a thing, all at once.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“She smiled at me, that one particular smile I hardly ever saw, the one that could open padlocks, Yale locks, bank vaults, the one that was a trapdoor down into everything.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“She was altogether colorless and severe, and still she managed to be beautiful. Not the way that girls are generally beautiful, but more like the way a knife catches the light, makes you want to take it in your hands.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“So what if somewhere, back a hundred years and change and across the Atlantic Ocean, some other Watson made best friends with some other Holmes.” (Brittany Cavallaro Quotes)
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“That’s the things about the clichés. They work.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“The kingdom is far easier to rule without the king.”
Brittany Cavallaro
Muse

“The only common denominator in everything you attempt is yourself.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“The two of us, we’re the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and machetes.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“The world goes warped and strange in the hours before dawn, as the birds, with their voices, remind you how they spend their days loitering above, unseen.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes

“Then they stole the Connect Four set from the nurses’ station and made me watch them play each other. I began placing bets on Mr. Watson. It wasn’t a good strategy, but it made my uncle furious.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“There needs to be a German compound word for feeling both guilty and enraged.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“There was a kind of relief in it, the giving up.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“There were so many comments on my accent that I adopted a Texan swagger just to be contrary.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“There’s not a lot you can control, you know. Where you’re born. Who your family is. What people want from you, and what you are, underneath it all. When you have so little say in it all, I think it’s important to exercise a measure of control when given the opportunity.” She smiled, ducking her head. “So I blow things up.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Last of August

“Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“We weren’t Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn’t, too. Like electricity, and refrigerators. And Mario Kart.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Study in Charlotte

“When things were going wrong, it was so easy to imagine that everyone knew, that everyone was talking about it. But nobody cared nearly as much about your life as you did.”
Brittany Cavallaro
The Case for Jamie

“When we first met, I had only been trying to survive, and he had snuck in, somehow, when I was at my lowest, and now I didn’t know myself without him.”
Brittany Cavallaro
A Question of Holmes