Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Dressed as a man, her horse unencumbered by anything but the bare necessities, she had the look of a survivor, a fighter, and he respected the hell our of her for it, especially when she slid the pistol out of one of the saddlebags and aimed it at him.”

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402. “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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403. “There is nothing, not even a flicker of life in his face.”

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404. “I need to get back.”

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405. “I didn’t have time for tears anymore. I had questions.”

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406. “Walking through your memories doesn’t tell me what’s going on inside of your head. No cause, only effect.”

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407. “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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408. “What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn’t believe in me when I had people out there who did?”

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409. “Nicholas wondered briefly if it was his destiny to be surrounded by women possessing varying degrees of murderous intent.”

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410. “I realized that the only people that were ever going to help us were ourselves.”

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411. “Don’t just get up and go like that again-like you always do.”

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412. “Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?”

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413. “Wallpaper. Decoration. Her whole life and person, whittled down to nothing. “I don’t accept that,” Etta said. I’m neither of those things. And, for the record, neither are you.”

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414. “Who says I would have?” I knew he meant it cruelly, that it was a weak moment and all he wanted was for me to feel as much pain as he did, but there wasn’t enough venom in his words for them to sting. He just wasn’t capable of it.”

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415. “Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.”

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416. “Liam was a great many things, but mysterious and unpredictable weren’t included in that deck of cards.”

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417. “And I know I won’t get the story out of Zu, not the full one, anyway. That’s okay. We’re allowed to have our secrets. Starting now, I’m leaving the past alone in the past.”

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418. “Of course. My girl? She’s incredible.”

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419. “I didn’t know how to explain it, because I had never wanted to.”

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420. “La mejor manera de equilibrar el poder con el que hemos nacido es sacrificarse.”

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421. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

422. “I want the whole of you, and would never give you less of me.”

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423. “You had day-of-the-week underwear growing up, didn’t you?”

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424. “I’ve heard some people say life can change in a day, completely flipping you feet over head. But they’re wrong. Life doesn’t need a day to change. It needs three.”

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425. “Starting now, I’m leaving the past alone in the past.”

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426. “Both eyes open, Nick. He’ll make as if to cut your throat from the front as another knife slices clean through your back.”

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427. “Certain memories trap you; you relive their thousand tiny details.”

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428. “She was protected. She cared so deep for him that he seemed to live like a second heart inside her. She wanted him, and he wanted her. To hell with forever. This moment was theirs, and she’d steal it if she had to.”

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429. “A part of me wonders if it’s not what she went through that has shaped her into something so solid and strong, but the people who went through it with her.”

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430. “Ma’am, please,” the older man said, sparing a brief glance up at the heavens. “If I may, I would far prefer death by harpoon to death by grappling hook. Less of a mess for the men to clean up after, believe me.”

— Alexandra Bracken

431. “The House of Perseus would rise again, and her name would be legend.”

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432. “I can’t tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.”

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433. “He would not surrender to the disaster of loving her.”

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434. “The spectrum of her emotions consisted only of calm and terror. She came back to us in full color.”

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435. “You just had to be willing to let the people around you serve as supports, and take their share of it when it seemed too much, too heavy, to hold on your own.”

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436. “It’s been so long since anything really went my way that I can’t really remember what “easy” feels like anymore – maybe like breathing without inhaling the ash of the world burning around you.”

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437. “Many humans do not care about what is “unfair,” for it varies so much between them.”

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438. “Sometimes you had to push away the bad things until they left you alone for good.”

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439. “How many times do I need to repeat the word for it to join your vocabulary?”

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440. “It also meant it was quiet enough to hear Jude’s panting as he came bursting through the atrium’s doors.”

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441. “Desperate times, I thought. When were they not though?”

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442. “To my surprise, he laughed softly, pressing his hand to his head and tilting it back. My eyes fixed on the strong line of his jaw, where there was a small scar just below his right cheek. ‘Priyanka was right. I’m an idiot. You, on the other hand, are amazing.”

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443. “I can’t make it fade.”

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444. “You may deny the fates, but they will not deny you.”

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445. “Monsters had fangs, but that was why lionesses were given claws.”

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446. “It takes a sharp blade, a huge effort to separate one half of a coin from the other. It would take something a hell of a lot stronger and sharper to separate me from her.”

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447. “The new car’s a lot prettier than Lucy, my Sweet Caroline – she’s a newer sedan, and, if I’m being perfectly honest, is actually a little bit of a risk. She’s flashier than what I’d usually pick. I just couldn’t resist her gorgeous shade of ruby red.”

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448. “How can you miss something, feel so awful about it, when you’re not sure you had it in the first place?”

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449. “Sometimes we have to bend,” she says, “to survive.”

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450. “I know you don’t want to scare her, but you can’t pretend that her life isn’t going to be hard. It’s not fair.”

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