Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “They were two ships sailing in opposite diretions, having met for a short time in the middle of the voyage, and he could no sooner “keep her” than capture the wind.”

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102. “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.”

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103. “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.”

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104. “You’re important. You deserve to speak up and have people shut the hell up and listen to you.”

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

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106. “I flick my turn signal on out of dumb habit, and because the end of the world’s no excuse for bad driving manners.”

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107. “Some people came into the world and never once looked up to see the lives around them – they were so focused on what they wanted, what they needed. No one else mattered to them. They disconnected from sympathy and pity and guilt. Some people came into the world as monsters. I understood that now.”

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108. “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.”

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109. “Hard exteriors could hide soft hearts, a chosen family could be more important than a blood one... and even the safest of places could be made into a trap.”

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110. “Your whole family fell from the crazy tree and hit every damn branch on the way down.”

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111. “We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.”

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112. “He’s just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.”

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113. “Lore wondered where one might procure a poisoned shirt in this day and age, and how well it would hold up in its gift wrapping when she mailed it directly to Philip Achilleos.”

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114. “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.”

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115. “I love you. With my whole heart. My whole life, however long I’m lucky enough to get, nothing will change for me.”

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116. “The wall I’d built up against the well of pain and fear and anger finally collapsed, and I began to cry. I sobbed, the way I had int he garage of my parents’ house on the last morning before they took me, I bawled because it was such a relied not to have to hold it in any longer, to have to pretend.”

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117. “You are not alone. You aren’t, even if it feels that way sometimes. You have people who are in your corner, who care about you like crazy. Not because you forced them to feel that way but because they want to.”

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118. “The princess, the scoundrel, the farm boy. The senator, the smuggler, the dreamer. The Rebel leader, the captain, the pilot.”

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119. “We are, all of us, on our own journeys.”

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120. “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...”

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121. “If not for the pose, the arms crossed over her chest as she surveyed the dark sea churning around her, she might have been one of the great masters’ statues brought to life. And in a thousand different ways, she was just as entirely out of his reach.”

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122. “Nothing like it exists in the English language. It’s Portuguese. Saudade.”

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123. “You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.”

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124. “When had I started believing in “normal,” anyway?”

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125. “We love you. If you need help, look for my parents – they’re using the names Della and Jim Goodkind – and tell them I sent you.”

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126. “I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I’d left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here.”

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127. “Who I was ad who I had beed disconnected, leaving me stranded somewhere in the middle.”

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128. “Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.”

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129. “One day we will ignite and create a blaze that no one can put out, ignore, hurt. We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.”

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130. “Rise and enter the lair, where the darkness gives you your stripes. Tell tyrants, to you, their allegiance they owe,” Etta read, running her finger beneath the words within the star. “Seek out the unknown gods whose ears were deaf to lecture. Stand on the shoulders of memory. Bring a coin to the widowed queen. Remember, the truth is in the telling, and an ending must be final.”

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131. “This whole time, from the moment we met, he’d been waiting for me to realize he’d known me all along, and he had never once wanted me to change.”

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132. “It doesn’t matter how great the lead cast is if the supporting actors don’t back them up.”

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133. “But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.”

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134. “Seat belts. Welcome to Psi Services. I’m Zach and I’ll be your driver on this epic quest to freedom. If you look out your windows – but, obviously, don’t because Ruby just told you not to – you can give Nevada the finger as we pull away.”

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135. “Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you’re the one that raised me.”

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

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137. “A flower is no less beautiful because it does not bloom in the expected form. Because it lasts an hour, not days.”

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138. “Sometimes we don’t know what we’re looking for until we find it.”

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139. “Maybe that’s the whole point-life showing me how good it could be, letting me have it just long enough to want it more than I’ve ever wanted anything else, only to rip it away. When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”

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140. “You shouldn’t- you should never forget. But part of surviving is being able to move on.”

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141. “Maybe nothing will ever change for us, but don’t you want to be around just in case it does?”

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142. “Power does not transform you, he’d said. It only reveals you.”

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143. “It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.”

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144. “People don’t live like islands.”

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145. “Fear is a foreign land I shall never visit and a language that will never cross my tongue.”

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146. “They’d taken in a monster, thinking it was a mouse.”

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147. “You listened to music this loudly to drown out everyone and everything, letting the rhythm and beats flow around you like a shield.”

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148. “If each memory that drifted up were a star, I was standing at the center of a galaxy. Beneath vast constellations of lost smiles and quiet laughter. Whole, endless days of gray and brown and black that we’d spent with only each other to hold on to.”

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149. “Power always comes at the expense of others, Prosperity Redding. That is the choice you make – the knowledge you live with.”

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150. “Black is the color that is no color at all.”

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