Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Maybe nothing will ever change for us, but don’t you want to be around just in case it does?”

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202. “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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203. “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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204. “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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205. “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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206. “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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207. “You are my passenger, and I will be damned before I let any harm come to you.”

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

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

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211. “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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212. “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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213. “Revolutions are won with blood, not words.”

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214. “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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215. “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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216. “I shall always do what must be done,” Athena said. “Yet the question remains – will you?”

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

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

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

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

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222. “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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223. “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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224. “We were the same, in the ways that mattered.”

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225. “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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226. “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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227. “Everyone pulls a bad card. What matters is how you ultimately play it.”

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228. “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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229. “There’s is this word. Nothing like it exists in the English language. It’s Portuguese. Saudade. Do you know that one? It’s more... there’s no perfect definition. It’s more of an expression of feeling-of terrible sadness. It’s the feeling you get when you realize something you once lost is lost forever, and you can never get it back again.”

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230. “There are rules, but rules may be rewritten if only one hand holds the ink.”

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231. “They had all of the pieces, and it just took one curious mind to put it all together.”

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232. “Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.”

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233. “There needed to be a distance. The one thing the past few weeks had driven into me over and over was the more you got to know someome, the more you inevitably came to care about him or her. The lines between you became blurred, and when the separation came, it was excruciating to untangle yourself from that life. Even if I had wanted to tell them, there was no way to put that kind of pain into words. No way to make them understand.”

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234. “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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235. “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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236. “We have to keep moving. If I stopped now, I knew I would never be able to start again.”

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237. “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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238. “I was just an okay person.”

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239. “Do I look as pretty as I feel?”

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

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242. “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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243. “You’d be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.”

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244. “A moment later, Liam’s bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn’t seeing Ruby.”

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245. “We used our minds like weapons clenched tightly in our fists, struggling to return them back to their holsters without injuring ourselves in the process.”

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246. “Can’t seem to stop looking for their reflections behind mine in each window or glossy surface I pass.”

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247. “Seeing Chewie’s look, Han added, “Hey, you’re the married one. Find.”

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248. “That was the dangerous thing about dreams-how quicly you became tangled in it all. People naturally let their guard down when they slept.”

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249. “The scars of what had happened were still there, not glued together to try to minimise the appearance of them, but glowing with thin rivulets of gold – more beautiful for having once been broken.”

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

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