Top 450 Alexandra Bracken Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I realized that the only people that were ever going to help us were ourselves.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

403. “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

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

— Alexandra Bracken

405. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

406. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

407. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

412. “I need to get back.”

— Alexandra Bracken

413. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

417. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

422. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

429. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

433. “If they wouldn’t see us as human, we’d make sure they understood we were something more.”

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434. “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

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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438. “Bind your fate to mine.”

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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442. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

443. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

444. “I’d rather be the fool who hopes and works toward change than the cynic who does nothing and laughs when his doubts are proven right.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Alexandra Bracken

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

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447. “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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

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.”

— Alexandra Bracken

449. “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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450. “She repeated the thought until it became like armor only she could see.”

— Alexandra Bracken