Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

254. “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

255. “You’re missing the point. It’s not that I believe in what Lee’s saying; it’s that I hope he’s right. I really, really hope he’s right, because what’s the alternative?”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

257. “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

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

— Alexandra Bracken

259. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

262. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

264. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

271. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

272. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

274. “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

275. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

276. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

277. “That was the dangerous thing about dreams-how quicly you became tangled in it all. People naturally let their guard down when they slept.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

279. “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

280. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

281. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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285. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

287. “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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288. “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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289. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

290. “Black is the color.”

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

— Alexandra Bracken

292. “You still fight like a Fury.”

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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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

294. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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296. “There are times, Miss Spencer, you defeat me utterly.”

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297. “She wondered if his privilege had made him blind to others’ suffering in his travels, or if maybe it took something of this magnitude to shatter that shield of self-righteousness that being white and male and wealthy had ways provided him with.”

— Alexandra Bracken

298. “You were a safe place to hide my hope.”

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

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