#janellebrown

[chasingpagesquotes]

In the end, we are all our mothers' children, no matter how saintly or evil they might be; and the loss of their love is the earthquake that cracks your foundation forever. It's permanent damage.

Janelle Brown, Pretty Things

[chasingpagesquotes]

People don't take the time to really look at each other anymore. We live in a world of surface imagery, skimming past each other, registering just enough to assign a category and label before moving on to the next shiny thing. It's the rare person who pauses to really see, to think about what else might be outside the frame.

Janelle Brown, Pretty Things

[chasingpagesquotes]

This is the greatest horror of life: that mistakes are forever, and cannot be undone. You can never truly go back, even if you want to retrace your steps and take another route. The path has already disappeared behind you.

Janelle Brown, Pretty Things

[chasingpagesquotes]

We aren't born monsters, are we? At birth, don't we all have potential baked into us, the possibility to be good people or bad or just some nebulous area in between? But life and circumstances do their work on the biases that are already written into our genes. Our bad behavior is rewarded; our weaknesses go unpunished; we aspire to ideals that can never be achieved and then grow bitter when we can't reach those goals. We look out at the world, we measure ourselves within it, and become more and more entrenched in one position. We turn into monsters without even realizing it.

Janelle Brown, Pretty Things

[chasingpagesquotes]

That was back when I thought the playing field was even, before I learned that it was not flat at all; and that, in fact, for most people not born into privilege, the playing field is a steep incline and you are at the bottom with boulders tied to your ankles.

Janelle Brown, Pretty Things

[chasingpagesquotes]

Anger is a magnificently blinding force. Once you step inside its scalding beam, it's impossible to see past that light. Reason vanishes into the darkness beyond. Anything you do in fury's service feels justifiable; no matter how petty, how small, how nasty or cruel.

Janelle Brown, Pretty Things

[tessatalksbooksblog]

Happy Tuesday! . I’ll Be You by Janelle Brown is a psychological thriller behind this beautiful color. It’s the story of two twins and ones quest to find the other. It’s fresh and original and it’ll be out next Tuesday. . A familiar story line in thrillers with twins (which thankfully this book does NOT have) is one evil and one nice twin…. . If you had an identical twin, would you be the nice one or the evil one? . I would probably be the mean one- not thriller level evil but definitely one that chooses frank honesty over nice platitudes. . . . . #illbeyou #janellebrown #randomhouse #comingsoon #thrillerbooks #thriller #thrillertuesday #thrillerreads #thrillerbook #thrillerbooksaddict #thrilleraddict #thrillernovel #mysterythriller #mysterythrillerbooks #tessatalksbooks #bookblogger #bookbloggersofinstagram #bookbloggersofig #bookbloggershub #bookrecommendations #netgalley #netgalleyreads #netgalleyreview #netgalleyreviewer #netgalleyarc #netgalleyreader #fivestarbook #beautifulbooks #beautifulcover #identicaltwins (at Lake Davidson) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcikykYrQzj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fredhandbag]

A #backlist book for #chikfilatuesday - Pretty Things by Janelle Brown. Did you read this one? #prettythings #janellebrown #cfacolumbiana #congames #bravethebacklist #bookstagram #bookshelves #booknerd #bookhoarder #bookworm #sodacityreads #bookish #bookreview #hardcover #novelsuspect #bookcover #bookhaul #literarycrimefiction #goodreads #homelibrary #fiction #domesticthriller #crimefiction #thriller #columbianacentre (at Chick-fil-A Columbiana Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP3VCB-rvHJ/?utm_medium=tumblr