Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “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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254. “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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255. “Jesus,” one of the agents said. “This is... this is really the president’s kid?”

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256. “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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257. “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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258. “Crazy is only crazy when it works.”

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

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260. “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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261. “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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262. “I was screaming and no one could hear.”

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

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264. “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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265. “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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266. “I would have torn this whole damn country apart looking for you,” I said softly.”

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267. “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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268. “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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269. “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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270. “Black is the color.”

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

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273. “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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274. “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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275. “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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276. “You’d be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.”

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

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

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

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281. “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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282. “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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283. “You still fight like a Fury.”

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284. “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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285. “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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286. “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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287. “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.”

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

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290. “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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291. “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.”

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292. “This time should have been no different. But it was.”

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293. “I’m not... I’m not without a heart,′ he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. ‘I’m not. I just don’t have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.”

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294. “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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295. “Stop trying to make me feel better,” Sophia ordered. “It won’t work. I’m determined to be angry and guilty about this for at least another two days, and then again when I’m punching your corpse.”

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

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

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298. “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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299. “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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300. “If he were to fall over dead, would they just push the body out of the seat and use it as a footrest, do you think?”

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