Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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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202. “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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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. “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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205. “All I hear are Satan’s hammers and the war drums of hell, thank you.”

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

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207. “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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208. “I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.”

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

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

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211. “Do I look as pretty as I feel?”

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

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214. “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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215. “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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216. “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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217. “The things which are denied to us in life will never create a cage for our souls.”

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218. “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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219. “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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220. “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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221. “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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222. “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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223. “When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy. Having two of them just meant that they stared at each other helplessly instead of at me. Chubs and Liam stood, up to their ears in awkward, until Chubs finally reached out and patted by head like he would have patted a dog.”

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “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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227. “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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228. “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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229. “I think there’s some part of everyone, that’s turned into the memories of a place. Strong feelings leave an inmprint on the air that echo back to whorever’s unlucky enought to walk through that place again.”

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

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

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233. “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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234. “You’re missing the point. It’s not that I believe in what Lee’s saying; it’s that I hope he’s right. I really, really hope he’s right, because what’s the alternative?”

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235. “I brushed the hair away from his face, knowing he was waiting for me. This whole time, from the moment we met, he’d been waiting for me to realize he’d known me all along, and he had never once wanted me to change.”

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

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

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239. “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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240. “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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241. “It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try.”

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

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

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

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

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

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249. “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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250. “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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