Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “That she’d looked at him as though he was the last treasure to be had in the world?”

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302. “Either my adorably sadistic grandfather has done something terrible to you, or you’re about to inform me that I’ve died by – rather stupidly, if I say so myself – falling off a mountain,” he said. “Those seem to be the only two reactions I get these days.”

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

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304. “He doesn’t bring many girls round unless they’re part of a job – but also ’cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.”

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305. “When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”

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306. “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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307. “You need to be able to control it, otherwise it’ll always control you,” he said. “It’ll scare you and manipulate you until you go crazy, die, or they find the cure. And guess which one of those things will propably happen first.”

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

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309. “And you know what the truly sad thing is, Etta?” Sophia whispered. “If he’d asked, if he’d put his case forward, Grandfather would have considered it. I know he would have. Because being born a bastard in this family is still preferable to being born a girl.”

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310. “They’d be invaluable if they were willing to help. Chubs straightened his windbreaker, zipping it up with a startling amount of conviction. “I’ll go with Vida.” There was a moment of total and complete silence. “Uh, no thanks,” Vida said. “Pretty sure it would be more helpful to bring a dish towel.”

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311. “If you consider yourself to be an artist, then be an artist.”

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312. “I started at the beginning, the escape. Fleeing through the forest, meeting a new danger at every turn, the desperation that came with trying to protect everyone when you could barely take care of yourself. The boy with the bottomless dark eyes, the betrayal, the fire, the smoke. And by the time I realized I had told him my own story, Jude was fast asleep, tucked firmly into dreams.”

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313. “When his hands were dry and chapped, he recalled the softness of her skin. When the world shivered at the approaching winter, he recalled the warmth of being beside her. When he felt the sneering judgment of the eyes around him, he recalled the invincibility she’d instilled in him with her belief.”

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314. “My eyes kept skipping back to her, drawn to her face like a lone candle flame in the dark.”

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315. “In that moment, the past became the present, and the present the past, and it was just the two of them in the shadows of their city, the way it had always been. The way it should have been forever.”

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316. “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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317. “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?”

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

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319. “The names we gave ourselves would always have more meaning than the labels others forced on us.”

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320. “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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321. “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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322. “If I wasn’t the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?”

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

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

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

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327. “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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328. “Life had the nasty habit of lifting me up just to throw me back down.”

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329. “I’m sick of wasting time on things that don’t matter.”

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

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331. “The you that you were then, who you are now, who you’ll be,” he began quietly, as if sensing my thoughts, “I love you. With my whole heart. My whole life, however long I’m lucky enough to get, nothing will change for me.”

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332. “She would drive a saint to murder. Like, ten-stab-wounds-to-the-torso murder.” “Good thing you’re not a saint.”

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333. “Look at what it’s done to us. Zu’s crying face the other night floated to the forefront of my mind, only to be replaced by the memory of Chubs’s confession about the requirements of becoming a skip tracer; him being shot; Liam’s battered face – all of these were linked in my mind now. They’d never fade, not even in the afterlight of all of this.”

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334. “He made her feel brave; he let her be who she was unconditionally, without judgement, and because of it, she felt life shifting around her into something that felt much more beautiful and clear.”

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335. “Together they had painted a rather vivid image in her mind of a man with a bloody sword, guided by a shrivelled lump of ash and ice for a heart, in possession of actual fangs and claws.”

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336. “Would you like me to go take that violin for you? I’d gladly fight whatever angry mob rises up if it might make you smile.”

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337. “I couldn’t help but wonder if he had picked up on my half-truht as easily as I had picked up on his.”

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338. “They will never have this, will they? They might not ever know the feeling of cozying up to a lightning bolt, what it feels like to look at someone’s face and see your heart there.”

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339. “The notes of the symphony of lives, desires, and revenge suddenly swelled into a chorus of generations, blasting through Etta’s mind.”

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340. “One voice could be drowned out, but not a dozen. Not a hundred. Not a thousand.”

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341. “Home is wherever there’s love; that as long as we’re together, we carry it with us. It will grow as we do. It will grow as we bring others in, as we bring the lost ones together again, gather up the embers scattered from the same fire. One day, we will ignite and create a blaze that no one can put out, ignore, hurt. We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.”

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

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343. “Some spent so long outside of their own heads that they couldn’t function right when they finally had to return their own.”

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344. “In the whole course of history, war had always fallen on the shoulders of the young.”

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345. “Yeah, well, I decided to try running from my nightmares instead of diving into them headfirst.”

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346. “I love you.” For whatever small comfort it was worth, he would have the truth between them now. “Most desperately. Bloody inconvenient, that.”

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347. “I would only want to play for you.”

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348. “Abbi described to me what it was to travel, to see the fabric of life spread out before him. He said it was ‘possibility.’ It is said that there is time enough for every purpose, and so you must continue to believe that there is a time for you.”

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349. “Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared.”

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350. “Nicholas began, wondering if he looked half as diabolical as he felt.”

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