Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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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202. “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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203. “You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convice yourself that you’re in this alone.”

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204. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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209. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

210. “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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211. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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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. “I was screaming and no one could hear.”

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

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216. “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

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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “I’m not saving you,” I remind her. But something makes me wonder if she even wants me to.”

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

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226. “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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227. “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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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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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231. “Nicholas had not seen such a look of unwelcome surprise on his captain’s face since the time their former cook announced he had served the crew stewed rat instead of salted beef.”

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

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

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235. “The first words that floated to her lips were a lie; she hated herself for it, for wanting to give in to the easy simplicity of a fake story, rather than peel off the bandage and bleed every messy feeling and thought about the violin all over again. But she liked this honesty between them – it felt like something real and solid, strong enough to tie herself to, when there were so many lies and secrets trying to pull her in every direction at once.”

— Alexandra Bracken

236. “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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237. “They’d never fade, even in the afterlight of all of this.”

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

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239. “It took me a while to understand that when you don’t like someone, nothing they can say or do will ever seem right. Something as harmless as giving a kid a cookie becomes something aggressive, a challenge to their authority.”

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

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241. “I had no problem with math. I liked it, actually. It was straightforward in a way nothing else seemed to be in life. There was only one right answer, and usually only one right way to reach it. It had none of those uncertainties of writing and reading, where a single word could change the meaning of a sentence. Math was fine.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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245. “He said nothing, but, then, he never needed to. His face was a book that had been written only for her. Its story unfolded while he watched her watch him.”

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

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247. “Strong feelings, especially terror and desperation, leave an imprint on the air that echo back to whoever’s unlucky enough to walk through that place again.”

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248. “If he was hoping to read some clue in my face, he was going to be disappointed; I’d spent the better part of last six years schooling my expression. Whatever he suspected couldn’t have been the truth.”

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

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250. “I was just an okay person.”

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