Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Revolutions are won with blood, not words.”

— Alexandra Bracken

252. “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

253. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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255. “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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256. “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

257. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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259. “It’s not worth it to weigh what you could have done or should have done when there’s no way of changing it.”

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260. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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262. “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

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

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264. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

— Alexandra Bracken

267. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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270. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

272. “I would only want to play for you.”

— Alexandra Bracken

273. “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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274. “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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275. “Good ideas had in the dark were generally best left there.”

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276. “No,” Chubs said, rolling his eyes. “I flew in on a cloud and came blitzing from the Heavens like a bolt of lightning on this kid.”

— Alexandra Bracken

277. “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

278. “Black is the color.”

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279. “Athena wasn’t at her most terrifying when her skin was flushed with fury, or she was snarling deadly promises. It was in moments like this one, when her eyes cooled and her body went still with a predator’s confidence that nothing would escape it.”

— Alexandra Bracken

280. “That she’d looked at him as though he was the last treasure to be had in the world?”

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281. “You still fight like a Fury.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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288. “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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289. “I just want us all to stop lying.”

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290. “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.”

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291. “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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292. “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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293. “A moment later, Liam’s bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn’t seeing Ruby.”

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294. “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

295. “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.”

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296. “I knew I wasn’t making sence, but I couldn’t seem to connect my thoughts to my tongue. That feeling... How did you tell someone that?”

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

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298. “The rage flared up in me so fast, so strong, that I actually forgot to slap him.”

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299. “I love you.” For whatever small comfort it was worth, he would have the truth between them now. “Most desperately. Bloody inconvenient, that.”

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300. “Every time one of us would try to touch you or talk to you, you’d jump like we had shocked you.”

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