Top 100 Alexandra Bracken Quotes
#1. 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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#3. We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.
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#4. She set her shoulders back, meeting his gaze with a challenge. "You call that a kiss?" One corner of his mouth quirks up. "We haven't the time for a proper one, pirate. Now tell me, where precisely are we?
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#5. 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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#8. 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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#9. One day they will name a plague for you," he said.
"Hopefully a particularly nasty one," she answered. "A girl can dream.
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#10. For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I thing they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.
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#11. My, my." A feral grin spread across Cole's face. "Little brother must be a good kisser.
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#12. When his hands were dry and chapped, he recalled the softness of her skin. When the world shivered at the approaching winter, he recalled the warmth of being beside her. When he felt the sneering judgment of the eyes around him, he recalled the invincibility she'd instilled in him with her belief.
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#13. It rained the day they brought us to Thurmond.
And it rained the day I walked out.
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#14. I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say but not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.
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#15. Because," I said finally, "in the end, she couldn't leave her family behind.
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#16. Thanks," I said after a small stretch of silence, "for not giving up on me.
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#17. That's right, you get him, Mary. Don't let him change the subject!
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#18. There were people in the world whose purpose seemed to be to serve as points of connection. They opened us up to each other, and to ourselves.
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#19. When someone takes such an interest in you, you have to wonder what it is exactly they're searching for.
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#20. I'm scared to death of you, but for a completely different reason.
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#21. The end. But I'm telling you now, if either of you breathe a word -one goddamn word- about Cate, I will come down on you so hard, they'll be naming hurricanes after me for a fucking century.
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#23. Ruby, give me one reason why we can't be together, and I'll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I'm not your parents. I'm not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.
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#24. He was so busy looking for the good in people, he didn't see the knife they're hiding.
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#26. The real problem is Mom and the rest of the people in this town don't think big. They're the kind of folks who are too satisfied with the small hand life's dealt to think that a bigger pot might be out there.
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#27. All the adults I knew buried the knowledge beneath lying smiles and hugs. I was still stuck in my own world ...
Looking back, I couldn't believe how naive I was, just how many clues I missed.
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#28. Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery?
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#29. What does the future look like? ... Jude said it looked like an open road just after a rainstorm.
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#30. I think there's some part of everyone, that's turned into the memories of a place. Strong feelings leave an inmprint on the air that echo back to whorever's unlucky enought to walk through that place again.
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#31. They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
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#32. 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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#34. I didn't know how to explain it, because I had never wanted to.
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#36. 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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#37. Once you know the special brand of pain that comes with being separated from someone you know down to the marrow of his bones, you learn not to try.
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#38. You are going to be incredibly embarrassed when you survive this, and I come back to make you answer for all of that poetry," she said. "I swear, you eighteenth-century men are so dramatic.
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#40. Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.
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#41. 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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#43. Yes, you are," Chubs agreed. "But you're our idiot, so be more careful next time."
"Cosigned," Liam said, hooking his fingers over mine on top of the armrest.
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#45. And, in that moment, the person that needed me most was the one walking away.
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#46. All cities are jealous of Paris, but Prague is the envy of Paris.
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#48. So help me God," I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. "If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won't stop, not ever, until I've destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.
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#49. Christ," he muttered, rubbing the back of his neck. "The first time I traveled, I attacked an automobile with an umbrella and nearly pissed myself in terror. So when I say you are taking this well, I hope you'll believe me.
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#50. I realized that the only people that were ever going to help us were ourselves.
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#51. It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try.
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#53. Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out - and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first time. Sophia wanted it, when she was only ever sent out.
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#54. There is one side. That is the side of friendship and trust and love and that is the side that everyone should be on, and I am refusing to acknowledge that any other side could exist.
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#55. It was amazing how small you could feel when someone wouldn't so much as look at you.
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#56. The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go.
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#57. The only thing Liam ever said about him was that he used to set his toys on fire when he didn't get his way
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#58. I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones."
"No you aren't," he promised. "You're one of us.
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#59. He said nothing; there was no expression on his face at all. His eyelids were hooded, and I could almost feel the way he was slipping back, away, into that place that was his alone.
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#60. The rage flared up in me so fast, so strong, that I actually forgot to slap him.
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#61. She'd known instinctively that they'd been building toward something, and she was only glad it had been the same 'something' she wanted. And maybe she was a pirate after all, because she would fight like hell before ever voluntarily surrendering the treasure she'd already found.
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#62. I was looped in on your little romantic quest. The only way to get me out without it looking suspicious was to suggest that I come after you dumb asses, since I supposedly know your crappy personality so well.
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#63. It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
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#64. 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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#65. They call you Medusa. One wrong look and your brain turns to stone.
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#66. A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.
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#67. 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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#68. We love you. If you need help, look for my parents - they're using the names Della and Jim Goodkind - and tell them I sent you.
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#69. I would have torn this whole damn country apart looking for you, I said softly.
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#70. There are rules, but rules may be rewritten if only one hand holds the ink.
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#73. So thought crossed my mind," Liam said suddenly.
"That must've been a lonely journey," Chubs said flipping the pages of his book.
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#74. No spinning, I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.
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#75. 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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#76. There are tests, but there are also small mercies. Life tossed us up into the air, scattered us, and we all somehow found our way back. And we will do it again.
And again.
And again.
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#77. I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?"
Because you would never leave me.
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#78. What a privilege it was to never feel like you had to take stock of your surroundings, or gauge everyone's reactions to the color of your skin.
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#79. I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes.
"I could kiss you!" Chubs cried.
"Please don't!" I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.
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#80. Can't seem to stop looking for their reflections behind mine in each window or glossy surface I pass.
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#81. I did more than just toy with her feelings, didn't I, Stewart?
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#82. 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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#83. Anything can break if you hit it hard enough. Aren't we all proof of that?
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#84. When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
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#86. 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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#88. Hey, this ship hasn't sunk yet," she said, tearing her gaze away from the museum. "We may have one sail, but we're still going.
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#89. 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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#90. - I don't want to lose you
- Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
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#91. Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.
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#92. It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.
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#93. This was the danger, the seduction of time travel, she realized - it was the opportunity, the freedom of a thousand possibilities of where to live and how to start over. It was the beauty open to you in your life if you only stopped for a moment to look.
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#94. That's beautiful," she said.
He turned to her. "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."
Her heart just about burst at that. Be brave. "I would only want to play for you.
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#95. No one can reason with another person so furious she can barely see straight. Well.
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#96. 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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#97. Good ideas had in the dark, he thought with a groan, were generally best left there.
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#98. Oh my God you are despicable!" Etta snarled.
"Careful, madam, blasphemy is still a sin-"
Even if Nicholas had been the gambling sort, he never would have wagered a single coin on her next words being "Then I guess I'll see you in hell!
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#99. Why do you have to take every good thing we try to give you and break it into pieces?" Nico said. "You let them turn you into this ... "
"This is who I am," Clancy snapped. "I won't let them change me. I won't let them touch me. Not again.
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#100. Not like you to let someone get that close," Nicholas said, nodding at the cut on his forehead. "Need the surgeon?"
"And be forced to admit that one of this ship's cabin boys caught me unawares with a spoon as I went below? Wicked little bugger. I'd rather be boiled in oil.
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