Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I don’t need a protector,” Etta said. “I need a partner.”

— Alexandra Bracken

252. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

253. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

255. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

256. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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260. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

262. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

263. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

264. “I would have torn this whole damn country apart looking for you,” I said softly.”

— Alexandra Bracken

265. “It’s hard to be the person who gets left behind, and never the person who gets to do the leaving.”

— Alexandra Bracken

266. “I’m scared to death of you, but for a completely different reason.”

— Alexandra Bracken

267. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

269. “Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only way to survive your past was to find a way to close it off behind you, to shut one door before passing into another, brighter room. I was afraid. That was the truth. I was terrified of the guilt and shame that would come flooding in when I retraced my steps, turned the lock, and found the girl I had abandoned. I didn’t want to know what the darkness there had done to her, if she would even recognize herself in my face.”

— Alexandra Bracken

270. “I think there’s some part of everyone, Psi or not, that’s tuned into the memories of a place. Strong feelings, especially terror and desperation, leave an imprint on the air on the air that echo back to whoever’s unlucky enough to walk through that place again. It felt like the darkness was stroking beneath my chin with a beckoning finger, whispering to me to lean forward and know its secrets.”

— Alexandra Bracken

271. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

273. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

275. “Like any girl, she still felt the echoes from earlier eras of repression. She’d been raised by a mother who’d fought hard to get a wage she deserved, to have access to education when she lacked every advantage, to travel on her own terms. The idea she was being asked-that she was expected to simply play along-made the blood throb in her veins. She was already in the damn stays. Wasn’t the enough?”

— Alexandra Bracken

276. “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?”

— Alexandra Bracken

277. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

278. “Alice had this magical look about her, like she would be at home in front of a hearth, wrapped in a large quilt, telling nursery rhymes to sweet-faced forest critters.”

— Alexandra Bracken

279. “Jesus,” one of the agents said. “This is... this is really the president’s kid?”

— Alexandra Bracken

280. “Don’t go... where I can’t follow, please, please, not again...”

— Alexandra Bracken

281. “You still fight like a Fury.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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283. “I start to wonder if maybe the things we’re so afraid they’ll do to us are the things they have to do to survive the tidal wave of hatred and fear we send coasting toward them.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

285. “It was instinct to pull back, to let go before I felt him let go first, bu he didn’t allow me.”

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286. “How unfortunate that sailing was one of the few occupations where a man could be praised for failing, so long as he did it bravely.”

— Alexandra Bracken

287. “Black is the color.”

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288. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

289. “It’s okay to pretend to be braver than you are.”

— Alexandra Bracken

290. “With it, or upon it. It was what countless Spartan mothers had said to their sons and husbands as they handed them their shields before battle. For a society that loathed rhipsaspides – shield droppers who turned coward and threw them down to escape, or those men who lost them in the fight – there were two avenues for returning home: victorious, or carried home dead upon your shield.”

— Alexandra Bracken

291. “Crazy is only crazy when it works.”

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292. “There are times, Miss Spencer, you defeat me utterly.”

— Alexandra Bracken

293. “She wondered if his privilege had made him blind to others’ suffering in his travels, or if maybe it took something of this magnitude to shatter that shield of self-righteousness that being white and male and wealthy had ways provided him with.”

— Alexandra Bracken

294. “I know I shouldn’t look, but I can’t help it, I have to see if it’s like before. Even with his mask on, I saw the soul beneath the stone.”

— Alexandra Bracken

295. “It is a difficult thing to, to lose, when one is so accustomed to winning.”

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296. “You are your abilities and they are you. I can’t put it to you more plainly.”

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297. “It was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else.”

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298. “I just want us all to stop lying.”

— Alexandra Bracken

299. “Home is wherever there’s love; that as long as we’re together, we carry it with us. It will grow as we do. It will grow as we bring others in, as we bring the lost ones together again, gather up the embers scattered from the same fire. 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

300. “Anger was like a disease to the soul, and no aspect of it was more contagious than violence.”

— Alexandra Bracken