Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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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402. “Of course. My girl? She’s incredible.”

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

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

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405. “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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406. “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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407. “You had day-of-the-week underwear growing up, didn’t you?”

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408. “What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?”

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

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411. “I need to get back.”

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

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

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

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

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416. “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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417. “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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418. “When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy. Having two of them just meant that they stared at each other helplessly instead of at me. Chubs and Liam stood, up to their ears in awkward, until Chubs finally reached out and patted by head like he would have patted a dog.”

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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

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439. “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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440. “Bind your fate to mine.”

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441. “For the first time in years, I could see the stars that Thurmond’s monstrous lights had faded into nonexistence. They were so bright, so clear that they couldn’t have been real. I didn’t know what was more shocking–the endless stretch of road or the sky. Tears pricked at the back of my eyes.”

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

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443. “I would have done anything, anything, to take the weight of that pain off her shoulders before it crushed her into dust. But I knew better; there was no real relief from it. 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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444. “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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445. “I can’t make it fade.”

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

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447. “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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448. “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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449. “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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450. “A person alone could be controlled, but a person loved by others would always be under their protection.”

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