Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “There are rules, but rules may be rewritten if only one hand holds the ink.”

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153. “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.”

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154. “I hope that when you have the chance to crack your world open wide with new possibilities, to meet new people, and to take a turn down an unexpected, new road, you do just one thing: carpe the hell out of that diem.”

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

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156. “It matters not who you love, but only the quality of such a love. A flower is no less beautiful because it does not bloom in the expected form. Because it lasts an hour, and not days.”

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

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

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159. “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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160. “Your ancestors carried the shield that bore her head,” Athena said. “They wielded her power until they lost her. If the shield should be carried by anyone, it should be you – you, the one who knows the darkness of men yet refuses to be afraid.”

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

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162. “And it made me feel empty in a way – like I had forgotten the words to my favorite song. That girl was gone forever, and all that was left was a product of the place that had taught her to fear the bright things inside of her heart.”

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163. “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.”

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164. “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.”

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165. “But hey, what’s life without a little adversity.”

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166. “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.”

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167. “You realize that by doing this, all you’re accomplishing is reinforcing in America-throughout the world- that the word different means bad, ugly, dangerous.”

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168. “I don’t care,” I said, leaning my head back against the seat. “Can we just get lost and see where that lands us?”

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169. “What a privilege it was to never feel like you had to take stock of your surroundings, or gauge everyone’s reactions to the color of your skin.”

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170. “We’ve inherited the darkest legacy, but they don’t know that we’ve learned how to thrive in shadows and create our own light.”

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171. “I need to get through today, and maybe tomorrow will feel easier. It always gets easier as you get used to it.”

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172. “On a good day, Chubs was about as threatening as a potted cactus.”

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173. “Breathing him in wasn’t enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.”

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174. “Hi darlin’, missed you something fierce.”

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175. “It is acceptable, even preferable, to be alone,” Athena told her, “when those around you would hold you back or deceive you. The exceptional among mortals will always stand alone, for no one in the world was made for their task. Take confidence in that, and let it be a poison to your fear.”

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176. “No, just listen. I’m going to tell you the amazing story of us.”

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177. “I already felt like the freak of freaks without the added realization that I lacked the basic ability of communicating normally with other human beings.”

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178. “He was so busy looking for the good in people, he didn’t see the knife they’re hiding.”

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179. “The melody of her heart had no name; it was quick, and light. It rolled with the waves, falling as the breath left his chest, rising as he inhaled. It was the rain sliding down the glass; the fog spreading its fingers over the water. The creaking of a ship’s great body. The secrets whispered by the wind, and the unseen life that moved below. It was the flame of one last candle.”

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180. “The only thing worse than being without you would have been watching them break you day after day, until you weren’t yourself anymore.”

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181. “Very few things made her happier than getting a rise out of despicable old men who wanted everyone around them to cower in their presence.”

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182. “How about a kiss, hey?” Etta liked that she was still able to startle him, just a little. The blank look of concentration broke as he barked out a laugh. “I don’t know if that’s a wise idea. We’d never leave.”

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183. “It was the quality of her feelings that shattered him – the pure belief and care that she had for him. He’d underestimated her, and he was more the fool for it, for denying this regard... this love for him. There was no other word to describe it. It truly was the same for her. The thought flooded him, filled his veins with equal parts relief and agony.”

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184. “You could only convince yourself something was prey until it turned around and showed you its teeth.”

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185. “We’ll be living with a set of rules we haven’t had in years, and while there’s something a little wonderful in that, I just want this... I want to forget for a little while. outrun the hurt. This one last time, I just want to go somewhere no one else can find us.”

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186. “Ir’s just that nowadays people are so quick to boil you down to the bare bones of info and upload you into a system, you know? And I think no one can ever really know another person unless you really pay attention... I don’t want to just see someone’s face; I want to know his shadow, too.”

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187. “I love you.” It’s our beginning, our middle, and one day – please God, a long way from here – our end. And It is the truth.”

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188. “This is a place where we don’t have to lie,” he said, motioning between us.”

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189. “What had Miss Finch said, all those years ago? That there were no do-overs, no comebacks? That once someone was gone, they were gone forever. Dead flowers didn’t bloom, and they didn’t grow.”

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190. “My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong – it wasn’t a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.”

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191. “Their thoughts did head in the same direction often enough, but there were times when Etta remained as mysterious as the stars in the sky.”

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192. “The things which are denied to us in life will never create a cage for our souls.”

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193. “Do you always close your eyes when frightened? Alastor asked. Open them wide, stare down your fear until it obeys you.”

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194. “It wasn’t so much that I couldn’t talk about it; it was that I didn’t want to. Not right then. I knew myself well enought that I could predict the chocked words and teary explanation that would follow.”

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195. “What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, life is good. It doesn’t throw you anything at us that we can’t handle.”

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196. “I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn’t what I once was, and wasn’t at all what I was meant to be.”

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197. “You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convice yourself that you’re in this alone.”

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198. “He said he’d never remarry, because he’d never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.”

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199. “Love was selfish, wasn’t it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of the inevitable. It made you want another’s mind, body; it made you feel as if you deserved to own their heart, and carve out a place in it.”

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200. “These are the people we’re dealing with... This is reality. These are people who won’t hesitate to kill anyone who interferes with their orders. This is what hesitation has cost us. Revolutions are won with blood, not words. These photos have been out for days, and what have they done to get people involved – angry enough to stand up and protest? Nothing.”

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