I cook better than you," Nick corrected absently. "I think monkeys can probably be taught to cook better than you."" I'd like to have a monkey that cooked for me," said Jamie. " I would pay him in bananas. His name would be Alphonse."" I agree, that would be awesome." Mae said. "People would come for dinner just to see the monkey chef."" You're raving," Nick said, defrosting chicken in the microwave. Mae was a bit impressed with how he seemed to look at the appliance and instantly comprehend its mysteries, when she'd been heating up ready-made meals for years by a method of pressing random buttons and hoping. " I know that's the only way Jamie communicates with people, but I expected better of you, Mavis."" We're cutting out the whole Mavis thing right now, Nick," Mae said warning." How many bananas would be good payment for a monkey?" Jamie wanted to know. " I would want to pay Alphonse a fair wage.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I did not matter what distant iron city had raised him. He had been made by Sorry-in-the-Vale, his bones as much a part of it as the valley and the woods. It was as if she had the whole town spread underneath her. Or the whole world, since right then he was the only part of it that mattered.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't have dealbreakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't have your way with words "Sin said. "So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you." Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing. Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't think he likes girls," I said. "Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn't look like a people person.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I know what other people think about me,” Rusty told her. “ ‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first, of course—they’re not blind. Then they add, ‘All the ambition and drive of a chocolate sundae.’

— Sarah Rees Brennan

In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.

— Sarah Rees Brennan