Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Darlin’, if it were a choice between you and a hundred of Gray’s finest, I’d pick you every time.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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304. “It is acceptable, even preferable, to be alone,” Athena told her, “when those around you would hold you back or deceive you. The exceptional among mortals will always stand alone, for no one in the world was made for their task. Take confidence in that, and let it be a poison to your fear.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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309. “You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you’re afraid.”

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310. “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.”

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

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313. “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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314. “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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315. “If you consider yourself to be an artist, then be an artist.”

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

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317. “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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318. “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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319. “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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320. “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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321. “I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’d be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick.”

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322. “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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323. “Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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325. “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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326. “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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327. “That’s right, you get him, Mary. Don’t let him change the subject!”

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328. “Interesting, though, that in the end we’re all just dogs.”

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

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

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

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332. “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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333. “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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334. “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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335. “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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336. “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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337. “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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338. “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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339. “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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340. “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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341. “One voice could be drowned out, but not a dozen. Not a hundred. Not a thousand.”

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342. “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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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. “With it, or upon it. It was what countless Spartan mothers had said to their sons and husbands as they handed them their shields before battle. For a society that loathed rhipsaspides – shield droppers who turned coward and threw them down to escape, or those men who lost them in the fight – there were two avenues for returning home: victorious, or carried home dead upon your shield.”

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

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

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