Alexandra Bracken Quotes

For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

~ Alexandra Bracken

It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.

~ Alexandra Bracken

None of this is your fault,' I told him. 'None of it. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

~ Alexandra Bracken

But hey, what's life without a little adversity?That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Dressed as a man, her horse unencumbered by anything but the bare necessities, she had the look of a survivor, a fighter, and he respected the hell our of her for it, especially when she slid the pistol out of one of the saddlebags and aimed it at him.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

~ Alexandra Bracken

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

~ Alexandra Bracken

He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Yes, well”—he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose delicately—“the burner phone we had accidentally fell out of the car, and someone accidentally backed over it. Because someone was in a rush after she accidentally alerted some skip tracers we were nearby when she accidentally used her abilities to move a light pole out of the road after she had accidentally backed into it.”“Someone better shut their mouth before I accidentally slam my fist into their teeth.” She punched his shoulder, and it was almost...playful.“Shut his mouth, fist into his teeth.”“Really? A grammar lesson?

~ Alexandra Bracken

Hey Boo, I'm in this now, too, & I got a lot of experience playing assholes like they're fucking harps. You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're in this alone.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery?

~ Alexandra Bracken

I was looped in on your little romantic quest. The only way to get me out without it looking suspicious was to suggest that I come after you dumb asses, since I supposedly know your crappy personality so well.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick

~ Alexandra Bracken

Also, screw you—maybe you can be all stealthy and break into their building to get the woman out, but I can getus there and back safely. I did this for months and never got a second glance from anyone, including PSFs.”“Probably because your ugly-ass face blinded them on the first look,” she muttered.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I know I'm going to shred the skin off your face and turn it into hair ribbons.

~ Alexandra Bracken

And for the love of God, bitch, don't get stabbed this time!

~ Alexandra Bracken

The end. But I'm telling you now, if either of you breathe a word -one goddamn word- about Cate, I will come down on you so hard, they'll be naming hurricanes after me for a fucking century.

~ Alexandra Bracken

This kid has more mood swings than a toddler's birthday party.

~ Alexandra Bracken

They call you Medusa. One wrong look and your brain turns to stone.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I felt the familiar warm tingling at the center of my chest and had just enough time to gasp as some invisible hand yanked me forward, smacking my forehead against the dashboard with enough force to stun me dumb. Chubs slammed on the brakes, forcing my seat belt to do its job and lock against my chest. I was thrown back into my seat, an explosion of colors bursting in my vision. Oh, hell no! Chubs roared, slamming a hand against the steering wheel. That's it! We don not use our abilities on one another, goddammit! Behave yourself!

~ Alexandra Bracken

A mannequin? An unfeeling heartless bitch who feeds on others' misery and is physically incapable of crying, unless it's tears of blood?

~ Alexandra Bracken

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Next time it'll be your nuts.

~ Alexandra Bracken

My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it’s a vortex that can’t and won’t be stopped.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we only arrive there after as series of chioces. The bible claims that the wicked act on their own desires and impulses, because God is good, only good, and He would never compel a soul to wickedness. That I`m supposed to count on justice in the next life, even if I can`t have it in this one.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Hours of being asked:Do you understand? But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask.What does it feel like?

~ Alexandra Bracken

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?

~ Alexandra Bracken

If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

~ Alexandra Bracken

It's always easier to take something than work for it...

~ Alexandra Bracken

See how many doors open, Alastor said, when someone with influence and ideas comes along with a key? Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Love was selfish, wasn't it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of the inevitable. It made you want another's mind, body; it made you feel as if you deserved to own their heart, and carve out a place in it.

~ Alexandra Bracken

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy.

~ Alexandra Bracken

I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions.

~ Alexandra Bracken

You gotta stand up and walk, Gem,” he said quietly, turning his back on them. “You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet.”So I did.

~ Alexandra Bracken

You gotta stand up and walk, Gem,” he said quietly, turning his back on them. “You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet. So I did.

~ Alexandra Bracken

You gotta stand up and walk, Gem,” he said quietly, turning his back on them. “You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet.” So I did.

~ Alexandra Bracken

This time should have been no different. But it was.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

~ Alexandra Bracken