Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Interesting, though, that in the end we’re all just dogs.”

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352. “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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353. “Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared.”

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

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

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356. “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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357. “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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358. “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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359. “Is this how you got around before?” Vida wondered aloud. “It is a miracle you dumbasses survived.”

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360. “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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361. “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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362. “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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363. “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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364. “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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365. “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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366. “I would only want to play for you.”

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367. “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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368. “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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369. “Good ideas had in the dark were generally best left there.”

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370. “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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371. “In the whole course of history, war had always fallen on the shoulders of the young.”

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372. “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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373. “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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374. “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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375. “It wasn’t that anger was inherently good or bad. It could lend power and drive and focus, but the longer it lived inside you unchecked, the more poisonous it became.”

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376. “Thanks,” I said after a small stretch of silence, “for not giving up on me.”

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377. “You gotta stand up and walk, Gem,” he said quietly, turning his back on them. “You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet. So I did.”

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378. “If these parents had been paying attention from the beginning, not running around like a band of panicked chickens, all of them scrabling for thle last scrap of hope, none of them willing to be the one to stand up and question it, they would have seen the lie a mile away.”

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379. “The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they’re coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?”

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380. “Because I’m not strong enough to survive seeing you with the League! I said. Because I wanted you, after everything you went through, to have a chance to find your parents and live your life.”

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381. “Go ahead, then.” Clancy’s teeth were stained with blood as he smiled. “Finish it. I finished what I came to do. And you all-” He turned toward the huddled masses of kids around him, his eyes focusing on Nico. The boy trembled under the intensity of his gaze. “You all can thank me when you can still fight back. I saved us. I SAVED US.”

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382. “He could silence me, but he had no power over my mind.”

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383. “You do have a choice, you know,” Etta told her after a moment. “There is always a choice.”

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384. “Should you try to leave on your own, know that I will go to the ends of the earth to bring you back.”

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385. “I had the strangest sensation of floating, of drifting farther and farther away with nothing and no one to cling to. I was standing right beside her, but the distance between us had split into the kind of canyon I couldn’t jump across.”

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386. “Is it not the case with these humans that they must be shown they desire something before they know they desire it?”

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387. “I walked until I lost the light from the fire pit, clawing at my T-shirt, trying to pull it away from my skin. It smelled like his room. Like evergreens and spice and old, decaying things. I pulled it over my head and threw it as hard and far as I could, and still – still – I couldn’t shake the smell. It was everywhere: my hands, my jeans, my bra. I should have run straight for the lake, or even the showers. I should have tried to soak his venom out.”

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388. “I waited for him to come with me, to accept that we were now in this together again, that time and distance and uncertainty hadn’t been enough to shake us. And he did.”

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389. “Watercolors couldn’t have begun to capture the sky in that moment, just as it prepared to brighten for dawn. The cruelest truth about life is that it just goes on – the sun rises, gravity keeps your feet on the ground, flowers open their faces to greet the sky. Your world could be dissolving with grief or pain or anger, but the sky would still give you the most breathtaking sunrise of violet, warming to shell pink.”

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390. “I never would have stopped looking for you. I would have gone to the very edges of time to save you from this.”

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391. “What good is strength if you have no sense?”

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392. “My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn’t so sure about that.”

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393. “It was nothing that would hawe seemed odd from the outside, looking in, or drawn attention unless you were really, truly staring at it.”

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394. “It was amazing how small you could feel when someone wouldn’t so much as look at you.”

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395. “But we are stronger for what’s happened to us. I am stronger, even if I couldn’t see it at first. We have been given the gift of understanding that we can come through struggle and pain. We have built new families in place of the ones that cast us out. We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.”

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396. “There was something else that Hall used to say–that life itself was uncertainty, and the only remedy to its madness was to act boldly.”

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397. “You are not what they tried to make you, or even what you tried to be for them.”

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398. “I love you.” He turned toward me, that agonized expression still on his face. “I love you every second of every day, and I don’t understand why, or how to make it stop-.”

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399. “When the deaths finally came to light, my elementary school put a strict ban on teachers and staff talking to us about what was then called Everheart’s disease, after Micheal Everheart, the first know kid to have died of it. Soon, someone somewhere decided to give it a proper name: Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration – IAAN for short. And then it wasn’t just Micheal’s disease. It was all of ours.”

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400. “A soft heart only makes it easier for a knife to slip in.”

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