Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “You listened to music this loudly to drown out everyone and everything, letting the rhythm and beats flow around you like a shield.”

— Alexandra Bracken

152. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

153. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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159. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

161. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

162. “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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163. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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165. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

166. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

167. “Your world could be dissolving with grief or pain or anger, but the sky would still give you the most breathtaking sunrise of violet warming to shell pink.”

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168. “Anything can break if you hit it hard enough. Aren’t we all proof of that?”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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170. “Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.”

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171. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

172. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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

— Alexandra Bracken

177. “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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178. “I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.”

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

— Alexandra Bracken

180. “He has gone to a place I cannot find him. I cannot sing him home.”

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181. “Because the lives you had before-that we all had before-we can never get them back. 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 in up behind you. Start fresh.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

184. “Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out – and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first time. Sophia wanted it, when she was only ever sent out.”

— Alexandra Bracken

185. “All I hear are Satan’s hammers and the war drums of hell, thank you.”

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186. “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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187. “The worth is in the fight, not the conquest. Do not give up.”

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188. “No tears, no secrets. I want the life I’m meant to have, Etta. It’s as simple as that. My father always says that the way to truly live is to do so without expectation or fear hanging over you, affecting your choices. I want to know you the way you know me one day. I want to play my violin, make my mistakes, fall in love, live in as many different cities as I can. Would you really take that from me?”

— Alexandra Bracken

189. “A man made his own future. He chipped it from whatever hardships insinuated themselves into his life; he carved out the happy, glad moments to capture his gratitude for them. It came from the simple magic of merely living. Of surviving. Seeking.”

— Alexandra Bracken

190. “I glide under a sky so blue, so purple, so golden I fight as hard as anything to keep my eyes open, because I want to remember it forever, however long that lasts. Because I know it’ll be the last thing I see.”

— Alexandra Bracken

191. “I’m not saving you,” I remind her. But something makes me wonder if she even wants me to.”

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192. “I wanted to tell her not to worry about this, that I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the stronger you had to be to keep carrying it around.”

— Alexandra Bracken

193. “What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn’t see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little – if any – recourse for finding a way around it.”

— Alexandra Bracken

194. “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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195. “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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196. “It shouldn’t surprise me that men continue to think of grand new ways to kill one another, and with greater precision.”

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197. “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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198. “She didn’t need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.”

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199. “Chubs didn’t have to finish. I knew what I’d been when I’d found them: a terrified splinter of a girl who had been shattered a long time ago. I had nothing, and no one, and no real place to go. 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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200. “You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convice yourself that you’re in this alone.”

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