Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “The rage flared up in me so fast, so strong, that I actually forgot to slap him.”

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304. “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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305. “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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306. “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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307. “If I wasn’t the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?”

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “If you consider yourself to be an artist, then be an artist.”

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

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312. “They could think they’d taken the parts of her that mattered most. That they’d broken her. But there was a part of Leia that the Emperor, Vader, Tarkin, any of them could never touch. Her heart was a star that would never burn out. And she would outshine them all.”

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313. “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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314. “It’s just that I don’t like the quiet. I don’t like the things I hear there.”

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

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

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

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319. “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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320. “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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321. “There are times, Miss Spencer, you defeat me utterly.”

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322. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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328. “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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329. “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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330. “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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331. “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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332. “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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333. “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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334. “When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”

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

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336. “He’d come here to close that door, but instead he had left it wide open for me to walt through.”

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337. “You may deny the fates, but they will not deny you.”

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338. “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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339. “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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340. “Is this how you got around before?” Vida wondered aloud. “It is a miracle you dumbasses survived.”

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341. “He was alone,” I cried. “He didn’t have anyone with him- he must of been so scared. I told him we would stay together.”

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342. “Okay, two brothers and a sister. Interesting. If they aren’t with her, they must be too old to be affected by the psi virus, in camps, or dead.”

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343. “It’s hard to put into words. Those things-those memories-are mine, you know? They’re the things that the camp didn’t take away when I went in, and they’re the things I don’t have to share if I don’t want to... And I want to talk about everything with you. Everything. But I don’t know what to tell you about Caledonia,” he said.“I don’t know what I can tell you that won’t make you hate me.”

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344. “But you were like this invincible force to me, even then. You were a safe place to hide my hopes.”

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345. “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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346. “I would only want to play for you.”

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347. “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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348. “With him, I didn’t have to be afraid, not of what I could do intentionally or by mistake. I din’t have to throw up every defence I possessed to keep my brain’s wandering hands still, because Clancy was more than capable of keeping me out of his head.”

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

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350. “Athena wasn’t at her most terrifying when her skin was flushed with fury, or she was snarling deadly promises. It was in moments like this one, when her eyes cooled and her body went still with a predator’s confidence that nothing would escape it.”

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