Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “There are times, Miss Spencer, you defeat me utterly.”

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

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

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

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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.”

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

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

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311. “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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312. “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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313. “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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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. “It is a difficult thing to, to lose, when one is so accustomed to winning.”

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316. “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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317. “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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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. “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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321. “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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322. “I just want us all to stop lying.”

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323. “Anger was like a disease to the soul, and no aspect of it was more contagious than violence.”

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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “That she’d looked at him as though he was the last treasure to be had in the world?”

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328. “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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329. “I would only want to play for you.”

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330. “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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331. “Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared.”

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

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333. “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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334. “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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335. “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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336. “Is this how you got around before?” Vida wondered aloud. “It is a miracle you dumbasses survived.”

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337. “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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338. “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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339. “Vida was back in the tent, humming softly, some old song I half recognized. I watched, disoriented, as she gleefully tore out scraps of White Fang’s pages, rolled each into a tiny ball, and threw them one by one into Chubs’s mouth, which had fallen wide open in sleep.”

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340. “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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341. “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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342. “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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343. “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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344. “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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345. “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.”

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

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347. “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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348. “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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349. “That’s right, you get him, Mary. Don’t let him change the subject!”

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350. “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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