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“Knowing someone, all their weaknesses, all their beautiful insecurities and vulnerabilities, all the ways to manipulate them—it gave her”
― Brianna Labuskes, A Familiar Sight

“The time and distance that came with history had a way of letting people forget.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

“Trolls were trolls for a reason. On psychological tests, they routinely scored high for narcissism and sadistic tendencies—they weren’t there in good faith; they were there to feed the darkness in their own souls. She wanted to tell AlexFan that he just had to wait a little bit longer.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Lies You Wrote

“We need people in our lives who don’t expect us to be anything but what we are,”
― Brianna Labuskes, A Familiar Sight

“It says, going into an investigation with a preconceived assumption of guilt blinds you to any other options,”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“Genetics loaded the gun, environment pulled the trigger.”
― Brianna Labuskes, A Familiar Sight

“It was a warm summer night of a kiss at first. Gentle. Romanic. It matched the dreaminess he’d seen in her eyes when she talked about lovers bathed in starlight.

She couldn’t know what she did to him when she had peered up at him, a mixture of sweet innocence and curious desire all at once. He had waged a war within himself. He should leave, he’d thought. If nothing else in his life remained true, he was a gentleman. And gentlemen did not ravish young innocents in their guardian’s library.
But when her milky skin flushed pink, he’d lost the battle. Even their talk of consequences had done nothing to tamp down the need that consumed him. For just a taste.

Just a taste.”
― Brianna Labuskes, One Step Behind

“She had truly thought that if she did the right thing, if she fought the valiant fight, she could be redeemed. But redemption had never lived in one single moment. It lived in a thousand of them.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

“If Althea had a church, it was within the covers of books; if she had a religion, it was in the words written there.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

“Do you ever do that? Have arguments in your head long after the fact? The words you wanted to say, wished you were brave enough to say, rattling around there as if they meant something? As if they weren’t just empty thoughts that will never see the light of day?”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“There was a script she was supposed to follow, lines she could read that would ensure the person who asked felt validated in their concern but not burdened by her emotions.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“I get that you’re pissed. But getting irrational isn’t going to help the situation.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“I’m far more interested in the beaux you have left mournful in your wake.â€� His fingers trapped one of the loose curls that bounced around her face, sliding the strands between the pads.
“They were legion. But they were all honorable gentlemen—unlike yourself, I may add.�
He gasped his faux outrage.“Are you saying my behavior is anything less than exemplary?�
She slid her gaze to the fingers that were still toying with her hair.
His free hand flew to his heart. She stifled a wholly unladylike giggle at his shocked and offended expression. “I demand satisfaction for this insult. Pistols at dawn,� he roared into the swaying carriage.
She wrinkled her brow. “I believe, as the challenged party, I get to choose the weapon.�
“A thousand apologies, my lady.� He cut a small bow in her direction. “Would you rather it be slow and tortuous?�
“I am not cruel,� she said loftily. “I can take mercy on you if you so humble yourself before me.�
“What if I like it slow and tortuous?â€� he murmured.”
― Brianna Labuskes, One Step Behind

“It is not failure we should fear but inaction.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its underwear,”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Truth You Told

“One bad event did not doom a person to be evil. One good deed did not a hero make. It was all about a life built on moments and choices and actions.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Truth You Told

“It’s strange, isn’t it? How we’re always the good guy in our own story. The protagonist.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“Life wasn’t always about making the right choices. Sometimes it was about making the wrong ones just to see what would happen.”
― Brianna Labuskes, A Familiar Sight

“an attack on books, on rationality, on knowledge isn’t a tempest in a teacup, but rather a canary dead in a coal mine. “There are moments in life when you have to put what is right over what party you vote for. And if you can’t recognize those moments when the stakes are low—let me assure you, you won’t recognize them when the stakes are high. Thank you.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

“Everyone had told her the grief would fade, and yet here she was on the second anniversary of his death and she still felt like she was bleeding out. Just very slowly.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Boxcar Librarian

“The headache that had started as a low thrum had worked its way up to miniature elves Riverdancing on her frontal lobe.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“After all, out in the mountains, it wasn’t the noise you feared—it was the silence.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Lies You Wrote

“He felt like everything that was steady and true in the world.”
― Brianna Labuskes, It Ends with Her

“As if they were worried she was one wrong word away from shattering and spilling the crazy everywhere. As if they were worried it would get all over them.”
― Brianna Labuskes, Girls of Glass

“Isabel had to view her as a liability. And liabilities in Isabel’s world were eliminated. The truth was, Delaney had been living on borrowed time. She was always going to become one of Isabel’s victims. She had just hoped to outmaneuver her before that happened.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Lies You Wrote

“I wanted to kill her before I even understood what killing was.”
― Brianna Labuskes, What Can't Be Seen

“was about who woke up every day in a world that made that decision a painful one, but did it anyway. It was about who made the choice to live when giving up would be so much easier.”
― Brianna Labuskes, It Ends with Her

“War—and she had decided they were at war—had a way of stripping away all those small things and then amplifying what was left. There were no tiny irritations or minor celebrations. It was all love and hate, fear and courage, poetry and destruction, everything more intense because of the contrast, the middle ground no longer there.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

“Delaney had a particular kind of personality Raisa had seen before—different from the mansplainers or well, actually types. Instead, it was someone who was just used to being the smartest person in the room. They genuinely wanted to inform people but also lacked a strong grasp of what could be considered common knowledge in any conversation.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Lies You Wrote

“And a connection to Kilkenny, apparently. Raisa no longer trusted Kilkenny’s take on the situation.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Lies You Wrote