Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Are you sure this isn’t a nightmare?” he asked quietly. “And that we won’t just wake up?” I stared ahead at the road, the way the dust blowing in from the desert covered it with a faint golden sheen even as gray clouds began to gather over us. “yes,” i said after some time. Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind.”

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203. “Nicholas eased back from her, wondering if this was what death would feel like – the painful release. He had envisioned it so many times as wading out into dark, cool water, letting it rise past his hips, his shoulders, his head. This was a breaking, a thunderclap of agony. How short a person’s life was, but how very many times they were asked to die inside.”

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204. “You are my passenger, and I will be damned before I let any harm come to you.”

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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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.”

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

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209. “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?”

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210. “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.”

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211. “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.”

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

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213. “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.”

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214. “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.”

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215. “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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216. “I looked up to the clouds, turning my face to the pounding rain. It looked like the sky was falling, piece by piece.”

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

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

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220. “Everyone pulls a bad card. What matters is how you ultimately play it.”

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221. “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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222. “You wanna go build some shelves with me?”

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223. “You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you’re afraid.”

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224. “I feel like I’ve been swept up and dropped on my head in a world that looks like mine but is slightly different. Brighter, more vibrant – or at least missing some of the dust and grime that’s collected over our lives after years of neglect. I can’t tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.”

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225. “We have to keep moving. If I stopped now, I knew I would never be able to start again.”

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226. “All around the garage and house were pieces of me, but they couln’t put them together. They didn’t see the completed puzzle standing in front of them.”

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227. “I was just an okay person.”

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228. “They’d be invaluable if they were willing to help. Chubs straightened his windbreaker, zipping it up with a startling amount of conviction. “I’ll go with Vida.” There was a moment of total and complete silence. “Uh, no thanks,” Vida said. “Pretty sure it would be more helpful to bring a dish towel.”

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229. “Scars are tallies of the battles you’ve survived.”

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230. “I don’t need a protector,” Etta said. “I need a partner.”

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231. “We have to go get him,” I said. “We can’t just... He can’t stay down there; he doesn’t like the dark; he can’t stand the silence; he shouldn’t have to be alone-.”

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232. “Wonderful. They had the rarest, most bewildering power in the world, and how did her family choose to use this incredible gift? To line their pockets with cash and go sightseeing.”

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233. “His presence was larger-than-life, bigger even than his physical body.”

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234. “Anger was like a disease to the soul, and no aspect of it was more contagious than violence. If it could be avoided, it would end a vicious cycle before it began. But this was a vicious society.”

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235. “There was nothing judgemental or accusatory about the question, so why did I still feel like an idiot?”

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236. “I couldn’t bear the thought of even your face here, left alone, for only the jungle to admire.” He shook his head. “Never. I’d never allow it. The only thing is to hire an artist to turn you into a figurehead for a ship, so some part of you will always be venturing out where you belong.”

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237. “It felt as if he had been given to her by the gods, and she to him.”

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238. “Revolutions are won with blood, not words.”

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239. “I guess once you’d had a taste of the worst, pretty bad isn’t all that terrible.”

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240. “Nicholas felt a peculiar sort of envy for his past self, the young man who still existed outside of the barbed knot of time. The one who had not yet been crushed into dust.”

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241. “There were people in the world whose purpose seemed to be to serve as points of connection. They opened us up to each other, and to ourselves.”

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242. “I have to say,” he muttered, leaning back, “I am harboring some incredible ill will toward this mother of yours.”

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243. “Nico looked up at me, and I finally understood that he was waiting for Jude, not for Clancy.”

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244. “This was the danger, the seduction of time travel, she realized – it was the opportunity, the freedom of a thousand possibilities of where to live and how to start over. It was the beauty open to you in your life if you only stopped for a moment to look.”

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245. “It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try.”

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246. “He was looking at his friend and seeing a stranger.”

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247. “Anyone who questined me-I made them feel crazy for doing it.”

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248. “Ugh.” Cole rolled his eyes, gave a small laugh. “In a move straight out of Lee’s playbook, I rolled over in bed this morning and hit the dresser. Already killing it this morning.”

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249. “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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250. “We were the same, in the ways that mattered.”

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