Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I flick my turn signal on out of dumb habit, and because the end of the world’s no excuse for bad driving manners.”

— Alexandra Bracken

102. “You cannot fathom the distance I would travel for you.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

104. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

105. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

106. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

108. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

110. “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...”

— Alexandra Bracken

111. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

112. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

114. “Building a new life, a better life, will keep you looking forward, until, one day, you’ll find you’re no longer tempted to keep turning back toward everything you’ve lost.”

— Alexandra Bracken

115. “I love you more with every sunrise.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

117. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

119. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

121. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

122. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

123. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

124. “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

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

— Alexandra Bracken

126. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

127. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

130. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

133. “Try to imagine where we’d be without you, darlin’, and then maybe you’ll see just how lucky we got.”

— Alexandra Bracken

134. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

138. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

139. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

142. “We could have stayed together in that comfortable silence for hours, and it still wouldn’t have been enought for me.”

— Alexandra Bracken

143. “But she wondered if, in moving outside of the natural flow of time, they had forgotten the most crucial point of life – that it wasn’t meant to be lived for the past, or even the future, but for each present moment.”

— Alexandra Bracken

144. “Hey, this ship hasn’t sunk yet,” she said, tearing her gaze away from the museum. “We may have one sail, but we’re still going.”

— Alexandra Bracken

145. “Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged edge at a time.”

— Alexandra Bracken

146. “He held me against him gently, as if I was glass – as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.”

— Alexandra Bracken

147. “Nicholas felt a rueful smile spread across his face. And a curse be on him for it, because now he knew her. She’d shown him her mind, and she’d opened up her heart, and now he knew the taste of her tears. And he was wrecked.”

— Alexandra Bracken

148. “Possibility... it is said that there is time enough for every purpose and so you must believe that there is a time for you.”

— Alexandra Bracken

149. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken