Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “His presence was larger-than-life, bigger even than his physical body.”

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252. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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254. “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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255. “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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256. “Nico looked up at me, and I finally understood that he was waiting for Jude, not for Clancy.”

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

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258. “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

259. “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.”

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

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

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

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264. “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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265. “I don’t need a protector,” Etta said. “I need a partner.”

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

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

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

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

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271. “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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272. “Crazy is only crazy when it works.”

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

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

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

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

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278. “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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279. “I just want us all to stop lying.”

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

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284. “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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285. “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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286. “Don’t go... where I can’t follow, please, please, not again...”

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

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

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

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292. “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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293. “Good ideas had in the dark were generally best left there.”

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294. “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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295. “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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296. “Black is the color.”

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

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

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299. “You still fight like a Fury.”

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

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