Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Interesting, though, that in the end we’re all just dogs.”

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

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

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

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

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356. “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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357. “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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358. “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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359. “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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360. “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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361. “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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362. “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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363. “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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364. “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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365. “One voice could be drowned out, but not a dozen. Not a hundred. Not a thousand.”

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

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

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

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371. “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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372. “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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373. “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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374. “You are not what they tried to make you, or even what you tried to be for them.”

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375. “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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376. “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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377. “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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378. “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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379. “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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380. “A soft heart only makes it easier for a knife to slip in.”

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381. “For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.”

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

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384. “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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385. “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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386. “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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387. “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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388. “It’s not weakness to require help, or a protector.”

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

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

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392. “I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around.”

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

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395. “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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396. “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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397. “You do have a choice, you know,” Etta told her after a moment. “There is always a choice.”

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

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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. “Liam turned his face toward mine. We weren’t even a breath apart. “Never,” he said after awhile. “Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.”

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