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Brenna Yovanoff

Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.

Brenna Yovanoff

Do you really want to know where we come from?” she said. “In every century, in every country, they’ll call us something different. They’ll say we’re ghosts, angels, demons, elemental spirits, and giving us a name doesn’t help anybody. When did a name change what someone is?

demons, ghosts, names

Brenna Yovanoff

From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.

Brenna Yovanoff

Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.

angels, lilith, love

Brenna Yovanoff

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

Brenna Yovanoff

My father’s answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.

lucifer, revenge

Brenna Yovanoff

Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These are things I did with no consequences, no repercussions. My nineteen detentions were for smart answers and missed homework. There is no equivalent punishment for making the world a stranger place.

non-conformity, school, strange

Brenna Yovanoff

Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I’m breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

breathing, existing, growing-up, heart, pain

Brenna Yovanoff

Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect – for our families and our friends, for each other – when the funny thing was, we didn’t have to. In the end, we were better than that.

complex-and-real-person, friends, perfect, perfectionism, self

Brenna Yovanoff

Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it. It ringed her pupils in rusty starbursts, but she was grinning–this terrible, ferocious grin. It made her look like she wanted to tear someone’s throat out.

Brenna Yovanoff

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

brenna-yovanoff, grief, the-space-between

Brenna Yovanoff

The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.

fates, love, war