Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “There are times, Miss Spencer, you defeat me utterly.”

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

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

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

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309. “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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310. “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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311. “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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312. “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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313. “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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314. “When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”

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315. “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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316. “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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317. “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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318. “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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319. “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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320. “Anger was like a disease to the soul, and no aspect of it was more contagious than violence.”

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321. “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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322. “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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323. “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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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “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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328. “I would only want to play for you.”

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

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

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

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333. “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

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

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

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337. “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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338. “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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339. “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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340. “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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341. “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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342. “Life had the nasty habit of lifting me up just to throw me back down.”

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343. “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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344. “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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345. “Mind the hour, mind the date, and find that path which does not run straight.”

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346. “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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347. “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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348. “One voice could be drowned out, but not a dozen. Not a hundred. Not a thousand.”

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349. “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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350. “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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