Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “This was the danger, the seduction of time travel, she realized – it was the opportunity, the freedom of a thousand possibilities of where to live and how to start over. It was the beauty open to you in your life if you only stopped for a moment to look.”

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252. “Your ancestors carried the shield that bore her head,” Athena said. “They wielded her power until they lost her. If the shield should be carried by anyone, it should be you – you, the one who knows the darkness of men yet refuses to be afraid.”

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253. “You still fight like a Fury.”

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254. “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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255. “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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256. “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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257. “Jesus,” one of the agents said. “This is... this is really the president’s kid?”

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258. “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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259. “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.”

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260. “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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261. “Crazy is only crazy when it works.”

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

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

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

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266. “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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267. “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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268. “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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269. “You wanna go build some shelves with me?”

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270. “Black is the color.”

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

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

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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 are going to be incredibly embarrassed when you survive this, and I come back to make you answer for all of that poetry,” she said. “I swear, you eighteenth-century men are so dramatic.”

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

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278. “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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279. “If I wasn’t the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?”

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

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

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

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284. “She set her shoulders back, meeting his gaze with a challenge. “You call that a kiss?” One corner of his mouth quirks up. “We haven’t the time for a proper one, pirate. Now tell me, where precisely are we?”

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

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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 was screaming and no one could hear.”

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300. “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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