Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “It’s not worth it to weigh what you could have done or should have done when there’s no way of changing it.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

303. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

304. “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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305. “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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306. “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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307. “When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”

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308. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

309. “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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310. “Darlin’, if it were a choice between you and a hundred of Gray’s finest, I’d pick you every time.”

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

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313. “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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314. “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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315. “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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316. “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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317. “The rage flared up in me so fast, so strong, that I actually forgot to slap him.”

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318. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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322. “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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323. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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326. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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

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332. “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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333. “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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334. “Life had the nasty habit of lifting me up just to throw me back down.”

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335. “Half the men worship at her feet; the other half have already proposed marriage, including young Jack, who has sworn to his dear ‘miss’ that he’ll be true if she’ll only wait a few more years for him.”

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336. “The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it’s jaws and wouldn’t let me or my conscience go.”

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

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338. “Mind the hour, mind the date, and find that path which does not run straight.”

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339. “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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340. “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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341. “One voice could be drowned out, but not a dozen. Not a hundred. Not a thousand.”

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342. “I was looped in on your little romantic quest. The only way to get me out without it looking suspicious was to suggest that I come after you dumb asses, since I supposedly know your crappy personality so well.”

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343. “Etta shifted in her seat, drawing a look of concern from Nicholas, who’d been studying his water for the entire duration of the conversation, as if he couldn’t quite believe there wasn’t dirt swimming in it.”

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

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345. “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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346. “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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347. “But you were like this invincible force to me, even then. You were a safe place to hide my hopes.”

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348. “Chubs gave me a weary sigh. “Frankenstein is the name of the doctor that created the monster, not the monster itself.”

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349. “It’s not weakness to require help, or a protector.”

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350. “That’s right, you get him, Mary. Don’t let him change the subject!”

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