Alexandra Bracken Quotes

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

~ Alexandra Bracken

—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

~ Alexandra Bracken

Life isn’t fair. I said. It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You’ll make plans, and it’ll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they’ll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

~ Alexandra Bracken

...crackers... a voice breathed out nehind us, yesss...Both of us turned, watching as Chubs twisted around in his seat and settled back down, still fast asleep. I pressed a hand over my mouth to keep from laughing. Liam rolled his eyes, smiling. .

~ Alexandra Bracken

I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes.I could kiss you! Chubs cried.Please don't! I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.

~ Alexandra Bracken

You wanna go build some shelves with me?

~ Alexandra Bracken

When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Do I look as pretty as I feel?

~ Alexandra Bracken

She shows up everywhere, at any time, like she can guesswhat we’re going to do before we do it.”“The lady is good at what she does,” Liam confirmed.“Can you please not compliment the person trying to drag our asses back to camp?

~ Alexandra Bracken

Oh my God, Green,” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.

~ Alexandra Bracken

My fear for you outweighs my fear of him,” he said simply. “And I told you, didn’t I? If you left, I’d follow you.”But should you try to leave on your own, know that I will go to the ends of the earth to bring you back.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the fence kept them in, than to be out there in the world struggling to find shelter and food. They had decided that the loss of some was worth the temporary comfort of many.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Why are you so weird?Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch.At least what I do is considered an art form.Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch-

~ Alexandra Bracken

Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out — and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first time. Sophia wanted it, when she was only ever sent out.

~ Alexandra Bracken

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around.

~ Alexandra Bracken

You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.

~ Alexandra Bracken

You are your abilities and they are you. I can't put it to you more plainly. Do you know why I hate this cure? It's a statement that what we are is inherently wrong. It's a punishment for something that isn't our fault - all because they can't control their fear about what we can do, anymore than they can control their resentment that there are people out there stronger and more powerful than they are. They want to strip you of yourself - your ability to protect and enforce your right to make decisions about your life. Your own body. Mark my words: in the end, it won't be a choice. They'll decide this for you.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.

~ Alexandra Bracken

He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind

~ Alexandra Bracken

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Like any girl, she still felt the echoes from earlier eras of repression. She'd been raised by a mother who'd fought hard to get a wage she deserved, to have access to education when she lacked every advantage, to travel on her own terms. The idea she was being asked-that she was expected to simply play along-made the blood throb in her veins. She was already in the damn stays. Wasn't the enough?

~ Alexandra Bracken

What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little--if any--recourse for finding a way around it.

~ Alexandra Bracken

And the open road rolled out in front of us.

~ Alexandra Bracken

What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?

~ Alexandra Bracken

You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.

~ Alexandra Bracken

...what does the future look like?...'A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It's a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be.

~ Alexandra Bracken

The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it’s jaws and wouldn’t let me or my conscience go.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..

~ Alexandra Bracken

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

~ Alexandra Bracken

You're missing the point. It's not that I believe in what Lee's saying; it's that I hope he's right. I really, really hope he's right, because what's the alternative?

~ Alexandra Bracken

I had the strangest feeling -- like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place -- that I wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be. The sensation made me feel hollow down to my bones.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I knew I wasn't making sence, but I couldn't seem to connect my thoughts to my tongue. That feeling... How did you tell someone that?

~ Alexandra Bracken

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

~ Alexandra Bracken