Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.”

— Alexandra Bracken

52. “But there’s a beginning in an end, you know? It’s true that you can’t reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.”

— Alexandra Bracken

53. “Monsters lived in the shadows. To hunt them, you couldn’t be afraid to follow. And the only way to destroy them was to have the sharper teeth and the darker heart.”

— Alexandra Bracken

54. “They were afraid of us – the ones who lived.”

— Alexandra Bracken

55. “Because she knows what it’s like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn’t find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.”

— Alexandra Bracken

56. “You and me? Inevitable.”

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57. “Only, they’ve done such a good job of making this place hell that I wouldn’t be surprised if the real one turned out to be a much nicer place.”

— Alexandra Bracken

58. “Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the dark.”

— Alexandra Bracken

59. “And the open road rolled out in front of us.”

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60. “Clancy had taught me well.”

— Alexandra Bracken

61. “It’ll be enough for now. Don’t rush the horses.”

— Alexandra Bracken

62. “Nothing changes if you don’t take a risk.”

— Alexandra Bracken

63. “If you’re going to knock down my suggestion, you’d better have one to replace it.”

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64. “Yeah, and I have a pain in my ass – and surprise, it’s you.”

— Alexandra Bracken

65. “You are the strongest person I’ve ever known, Castor Achilleos, and it wasn’t because of how fast you ran or how hard you hit. It was because even when you got knocked flat on your back, you fought your way back up. You have to do it again now. Whatever you’re feeling, you have to leave it on the mat and get back up.”

— Alexandra Bracken

66. “All cities are jealous of Paris, but Prague is the envy of Paris.”

— Alexandra Bracken

67. “I’m a monster, you know. I’m one of the dangerous ones. No you aren’t, he promised. Your one of us.”

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68. “Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I’m not your parents. I’m not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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70. “Say something. Please, say anything, just don’t hide your thoughts from me.”

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71. “Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone – and maybe that needed to change.”

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72. “Sometimes you’re the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don’t mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can’t dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you’re made of.”

— Alexandra Bracken

73. “Because one moment in life does not define a person,” Li Min said. “Without mistakes and misjudgments we would stagnate. It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try. Nor is a scar or injury something to despair over, for it is a mark that you were strong enough to survive.”

— Alexandra Bracken

74. “I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.”

— Alexandra Bracken

75. “A feather fallen from a wing is not lost, Gil had told her, but free.”

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76. “And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless stream of ideas that were as flat as his voice.”

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77. “It wasn’t a weakness to have those thoughts, to feel that need to help another, to save lives. It made one human.”

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78. “It doesn’t make you a bad person, you know-to want to live your own life.”

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79. “They don’t burn, do they? Not like us.”

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80. “I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.”

— Alexandra Bracken

81. “Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. – CG.”

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82. “When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy. Having two of them just meant that they stared at each other helplessly instead of at me.”

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83. “It’s not always the truth that survives, but the stories we wish to believe. The legends lie. They smooth over imperfections to tell a good tale, or to instruct us how we should behave, or to assign glory to victors and shame those who falter. Perhaps there were some in Sparta who embodied those myths. Perhaps. But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.”

— Alexandra Bracken

84. “I see it in colors,” I said. “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

85. “You are guarded. You don’t show your cards to anyone. There are times that you’re impossible to read.”

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86. “Sometimes life just happens to you, and you can’t dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you’re made of.”

— Alexandra Bracken

87. “There is one side. That is the side of friendship and trust and love and that is the side that everyone should be on, and I am refusing to acknowledge that any other side could exist.”

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88. “Everyone’s entitled to stupidity, but they really abuse the privilege, don’t they?”

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89. “We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.”

— Alexandra Bracken

90. “Sometimes the braver thing is to accept help when you’ve been made to believe you shouldn’t need it.”

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91. “When we can’t change the past, the only thing left is to move forward.”

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92. “I want to feel every ounce of pain and happiness life can serve up, because it’ll mean I’ve survived. It’ll mean I’m alive.”

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93. “They got guns, but we got brains. I like those odds.”

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94. “Because,” I said finally, “in the end, she couldn’t leave her family behind.”

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95. “Thing is, though, fear is worthless. It stops you when you need to keep moving most. And it only exists inside of your head.”

— Alexandra Bracken

96. “It’s not always the truth that survives, but the stories we wish to believe. The legends lie. They smooth over imperfections to tell a good tale, or to instruct us how we should behave, or to assign glory to victors and shame those who falter.”

— Alexandra Bracken

97. “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

98. “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

99. “Better to risk helping someone than regret what you could have done.”

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100. “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