Brynne Weaver > Quotes

“I didn’t gouge them out, Butcher. I plucked them. Delicately. Like a lady.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“I would kill for you, and I have. I would do it again, every damn day. I’d turn myself inside out for you. I would die for you. I don’t just like you, Sloane, and you fucking know it.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“There's art in our scars. There's wonder in the way we can heal.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Maybe I was right. We’re not normal people. We are monsters. But if we’re monsters, we’ll thrive in the dark. Together.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Boobs plus murder don’t equal a relationship, Lark. That math ain’t mathin’.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“For those of you who read the trigger warnings and said “Accidental cannibalism?! Count me in!” This one’s for you.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Because I ‘like you’...?” Rowan cackles an incredulous laugh. “Like. You. Seriously…? Christ, Sloane. You are fucking brilliant but also the most willfully oblivious person I have ever met. Do you really think I just like you when I framed a drawing you left for me on a scrap of paper you tore from a notebook? The one I hung it in the kitchen so I can look at it every day and think of you? Do you think I just like you when I tattoo it on my skin? I play this fucking game every year and tear my heart out watching you walk away, only to do it all over again, and I like you? You think I just like you when I fuck you like this?”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“He’s Rowan,” Sloane says, gesturing at me again. Rose narrows her eyes as though this is insufficient information. “He’s my f-fr…boy. Guy. A man-guy. I’m…with. Here.”  I snort a laugh as Rose’s face scrunches. “Man-guy,” I echo. “Real smooth, Blackbird.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“You might be psycho,” I say with a grin as her eyes narrow, “but you’re my psycho, and I’m yours. Got it?”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“You have never been unlovable. You were just waiting for someone who will love you for who you are, not for who they want you to be. I can do that, if you'll let me.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Did you just propose on a napkin with a ring you stuffed in a guy’s eye hole?”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Being a serial killer who kills serial killers is a great hobby… Until you find yourself locked in a cage.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“I want to ruin her so that she’s mine, my beautiful disaster. My wild creature. My goddess of chaos.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Bravery has nothing to do with not feeling fear, and everything to do with facing it.”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

“It's okay to love your darkness and still love yourself. It doesn't make you a bad person. It makes you a whole one.”
― Brynne Weaver, Scythe & Sparrow

“Lobotomy,’ I mouth at him, trying to make it look like I’m scratching my forehead when I tap it and nod toward David. Rowan’s head tilts and I roll my eyes, gritting my teeth. ‘Lo-bo-to-my.’ Rowan’s head tilts in the other direction, his brow still furrowed but a hint of a grin playing at his lips. He subtly points at me, and then at himself. ‘You love me?’ he mouths.  I smack my head.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“I just want to be tossed around a bit. Manhandled, you know? Call me a dirty little slut and I’m all for it.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“I’m more like a multiple deleter.”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

“Pick a safe word. Do it now.” I swallow. Hard. “Chainsaw.” He huffs a laugh, a burst of warmth against my core. “How fitting, love. Now be a good girl and find something to grab on to…” he says, then passes one long, slow lick over my center. “...Because I’m about to destroy you.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“You know what they say, Blackbird. ‘It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye,’” I whisper. “And that’s when the real fun begins.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Geallaim duit a bheith i mo fhear céile dílis duit, fad a mhairimid le chéile,”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

“I think we’re officially best friends now,” she says.  “Oh yeah? Do you want to go do karate in the garage?”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“You’ll love me one day,”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“My feckin’ catastrophe,” he says as his thumb coasts across my cheek. “You fucking destroyed me. And now I can’t imagine being anything but the man that I am with you.”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

“A snow globe,” I say slowly, waiting for her to look up, which she doesn’t do. “You made a severed finger into a feckin’ snow globe.” “It was almost Christmas,” she says with a shrug. “It felt … festive.”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

“Sometimes, you need to carve the things you’ve lost right into your skin so you remember what you left behind.”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

“But finding someone who could understand me for all the shattered pieces beneath the mask? I needed that. Before you came along, something was missing. You, Rowan. You were missing. You made it safe to feel seen. Safe to play on our terms. Safe to have fun, even though our fun might not be everyone’s idea of a good time.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Secure your eyeballs. Repeat. Secure your eyeballs.”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark

“It wasn’t really by choice. But I’d take a raccoon to the face for you any day, Rose Evans.”
― Brynne Weaver, Scythe & Sparrow

“Sometimes karma needs a backup bitch,”
― Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark