Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Bind your fate to mine.”

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452. “For the first time in years, I could see the stars that Thurmond’s monstrous lights had faded into nonexistence. They were so bright, so clear that they couldn’t have been real. I didn’t know what was more shocking–the endless stretch of road or the sky. Tears pricked at the back of my eyes.”

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453. “I would have done anything, anything, to take the weight of that pain off her shoulders before it crushed her into dust. But I knew better; there was no real relief from it. You just had to be willing to let the people around you serve as supports, and take their share of it when it seemed too much, too heavy, to hold on your own.”

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454. “Do you believe in that world you spoke of, the one made for us?′ She swallowed, nodding. Her soft lips were against his bare skin, and he was a man, damn it all, and he was burning for her. The words that escaped him were choked with emotion. ‘If we aren’t to have it in this life, then in the next. If not now, then we’ll have forever.”

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455. “His brother’s dream is here, alive. It has survived death and destruction; it hasn’t blown away with the ash that settles after his fire was put out. It will go on.”

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456. “What’s past id prologue.”

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457. “If she’s not alright, I’m going to rip out his heart and eat it.” I nodded. “You really shouldn’t eat raw meat,” Chubs said.”

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458. “If I could pluck this moment out of time and keep us here forever, I would.”

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459. “What is it about horrible, violent things that capture us?”

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460. “When someone takes such an interest in you, you have to wonder what it is exactly they’re searching for.”

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461. “A person alone could be controlled, but a person loved by others would always be under their protection.”

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462. “We were the goddamn Rainbow Connection. All we needed was a Red to complete the deck.”

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463. “If they wouldn’t see us as human, we’d make sure they understood we were something more.”

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464. “Her mother had told her that the only way to truly know someone was to fight them.”

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465. “Chubs helped me up, giving me a look that clearly asked, what fresh hell is this?”

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466. “She repeated the thought until it became like armor only she could see.”

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467. “An oath was, after all, a curse you placed on yourself.”

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468. “It’s not always the truth that survives, but the stories we wish to believe.”

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469. “No, not missing, I thought. Those kids had been taken, or really were gone forever. Their parents and families were searching for them, posting their pictures, because they wanted them back. Needed them.”

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470. “But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.”

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471. “I’d rather be the fool who hopes and works toward change than the cynic who does nothing and laughs when his doubts are proven right.”

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472. “I chose to stay in,” he told her. “I’m not leaving before I get the ones who caged me.”

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473. “Never. Never again would he allow any other man to define him, set his course.”

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474. “If there were once heroes, they are all gone now,” her father said, rising. “Only the monsters remain.”

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475. “She would never be more than what she was now: a girl standing at the threshold of a secret world, without a key to unlock the way.”

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476. “Mornin’, sunshine!”

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477. “He’s looking for something, and I don’t know if it’s you.”

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478. “They let themselves burn when so many of us were afraid to be warmed by the fire.”

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479. “Ruby, what does the future look like?” Nico asked. “I can’t picture it. I try all the time, but I can’t imagine it. Jude said it looked like an open road just after a rainstorm.”

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480. “The problem with siblings, I decided, was that they spent years gathering up all these little daggers of observation and learning exactly where to slip them between your bones.”

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481. “There are far worse things to become than a monster.”

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482. “This is the thing about pain: it never stays exactly the same. Just when you think you’ve beat an old hurt, or that you’ve finally sent grief packing, it circles back wearing a new, more terrible face.”

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483. “It’s the feeling you get when you realize something you once lost is lost forever, and you can never get it back again.”

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484. “Tradition should not stand if its roots are rotten.”

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485. “A library was a home to those who dreamt of better places.”

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486. “He became the answer to every doubt and lingering question.”

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487. “I will never hurt you, or yell at you, or let you go hungry. I will protect you for the rest of my life. I will never fully understand what you’ve been through, but I will always listen when you need to get something out. Do you understand?”

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488. “She could have been anyone’s grandmother – if it hadn’t been for the flaming bottle she clutched in her hand.”

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489. “I forget myself with you. I forget the rules. I forget every other living soul in this would. Do you understand?”

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490. “Interesting” had been his only comment.”

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491. “Let the dead die, Tamsy,” he told me once “It’s only memory that truly pains us, and they release it when they go.”

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492. “That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin’, missed you something fierce.”

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