Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “We were the goddamn Rainbow Connection. All we needed was a Red to complete the deck.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

454. “It also meant it was quiet enough to hear Jude’s panting as he came bursting through the atrium’s doors.”

— Alexandra Bracken

455. “Desperate times, I thought. When were they not though?”

— Alexandra Bracken

456. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

457. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

458. “To my surprise, he laughed softly, pressing his hand to his head and tilting it back. My eyes fixed on the strong line of his jaw, where there was a small scar just below his right cheek. ‘Priyanka was right. I’m an idiot. You, on the other hand, are amazing.”

— Alexandra Bracken

459. “What’s past id prologue.”

— Alexandra Bracken

460. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

462. “You may deny the fates, but they will not deny you.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

470. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

476. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

477. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

478. “Mornin’, sunshine!”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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481. “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?”

— Alexandra Bracken

482. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

483. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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490. “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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491. “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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492. “That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin’, missed you something fierce.”

— Alexandra Bracken