Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “We were the same, in the ways that mattered.”

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254. “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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255. “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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256. “It’s hard to be the person who gets left behind, and never the person who gets to do the leaving.”

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257. “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.”

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

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

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261. “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.”

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

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264. “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.”

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

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266. “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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267. “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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268. “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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269. “A moment later, Liam’s bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn’t seeing Ruby.”

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270. “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?”

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271. “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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272. “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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273. “Jesus,” one of the agents said. “This is... this is really the president’s kid?”

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

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

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276. “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.”

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

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278. “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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279. “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.”

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280. “Black is the color.”

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

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283. “You still fight like a Fury.”

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

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

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

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

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291. “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.”

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292. “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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293. “Can you not see it? Can you not feel how badly I want you? I’m a selfish bastard, I’m worse then you’ll ever know, but I’ll answer to God or anyone else who tries to stand in our way so long as I know you’re safe.”

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294. “I hated him- I hated him for everything he had done, but, more than that, I hated him for being right.”

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295. “Darlin’, if it were a choice between you and a hundred of Gray’s finest, I’d pick you every time.”

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296. “I flew in on a cloud and came blitzing down from the heavens like a bolt of lightning on this kid.”

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297. “Vida was back in the tent, humming softly, some old song I half recognized. I watched, disoriented, as she gleefully tore out scraps of White Fang’s pages, rolled each into a tiny ball, and threw them one by one into Chubs’s mouth, which had fallen wide open in sleep.”

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

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299. “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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300. “See how many doors open, Alastor said, when someone with influence and ideas comes along with a key? Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared.”

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