Top 100 Alexandra Bracken Quotes
#1. 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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#2. It was instinct to pull back, to let go before I felt him let go first, bu he didn't allow me.
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#3. Thanks," I said after a small stretch of silence, "for not giving up on me.
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#4. You need to be able to control it, otherwise it'll always control you," he said. "It'll scare you and manipulate you until you go crazy, die, or they find the cure. And guess which one of those things will propably happen first.
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#5. if we don't feel any responsibility for each other, who's ever going to care about us?
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#6. Because," I said finally, "in the end, she couldn't leave her family behind.
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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Who sent you?" O'Ryan asked. "What was your purpose here?"
"To ... to tell you ... " The words didn't sound nearly as furious coming out of my mouth as they did in my head. The camp controller leaned forward, eyes narrowing into slits. "To go ... fuck yourself.
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#10. He was more p***ed off by us playing a game of who could think up the worst nickname for him."
"Let me guess, you won?"
"It was Boy Scout, actually. I mean, come on. Even I couldn't top Chubby Chubby Choo Choo.
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#11. It rained the day they brought us to Thurmond.
And it rained the day I walked out.
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#12. Dear Dad,
When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you're the one that raised me.
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#13. 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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#14. Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now."
"So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?
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#15. The spectrum of her emotions consisted only of calm and terror. She came back to us in full color.
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#16. Yeah, well, I decided to try running from my nightmares instead of diving into them headfirst.
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#17. Clancy. You really want to pretend we're on the same team?"
"Aren't I basically the mascot?
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#18. My, my." A feral grin spread across Cole's face. "Little brother must be a good kisser.
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#19. 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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#20. I wanted to tell her not to worry about this, that I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the stronger you had to be to keep carrying it around.
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#21. He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.
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#23. Who do we like, then?" I pressed.
"We like us," Liam said after a while. "And that's about it.
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#25. I feel like I'm losing my damn mind, like your face has been carved into my heart, and I don't remember when, and I don't understand why, but the scar is there, and I can't get it to heal. It won't go. I can't make it fade. And you won't even look at me.
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#26. Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is considered an art form," Chubs said. "Yes, in ye olde medieval Europe you would've been quite the catch -
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#27. When someone takes such an interest in you, you have to wonder what it is exactly they're searching for.
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#28. She shows up everywhere, at any time, like she can guess
what we're going to do before we do it."
"The lady is good at what she does," Liam confirmed.
"Can you please not compliment the person trying to drag our asses back to camp?
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#29. I missed him. I missed him, I missed him -oh my God, I missed him so much.
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#30. Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
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#31. You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.
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#32. That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
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#33. But she wondered if, in moving outside of the natural flow of time, they had forgotten the most crucial point of life - that it wasn't meant to be lived for the past, or even the future, but for each present moment.
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#34. You're missing the point. It's not that I believe in what Lee's saying; it's that I hope he's right. I really, really hope he's right, because what's the alternative?
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#35. Jude: But I thought Fancy was the Slip Kid?
Olivia: Fancy?
Ruby: He nicknamed Clancy.
Olivia: Fancy sort of suits him.
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#36. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
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#37. 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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#38. I glide under a sky so blue, so purple, so golden I fight as hard as anything to keep my eyes open, because I want to remember it forever, however long that lasts. Because I know it'll be the last thing I see.
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#39. Can you not see it? Can you not feel how badly I want you? I'm a selfish bastard, I'm worse then you'll ever know, but I'll answer to God or anyone else who tries to stand in our way so long as I know you're safe.
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#40. Don't say passed away,' I tell him, drawing from my own terrible well of experience. Say he died. Death is horrible. We shouldn't give it a pretty name.
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#41. If he was hoping to read some clue in my face, he was going to be disappointed; I'd spent the better part of last six years schooling my expression. Whatever he suspected couldn't have been the truth.
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#42. Sometimes we don't know what we're looking for until we find it.
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#43. 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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#44. I have to say," he muttered, leaning back, "I am harboring some incredible ill will toward this mother of yours.
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#45. That's right, you get him, Mary. Don't let him change the subject!
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#47. Strong feelings, especially terror and desperation, leave an imprint on the air that echo back to whoever's unlucky enough to walk through that place again.
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#50. 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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#51. Hey-"I called. Liam stopped, turning back up to look at me. " Be careful.'
His blue eyes flicked back and forth between Cate and me.
" You too, darlin'.
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#52. I'm a monster. You know, one of the dangerous ones."
"No, you aren't, you're one of us.
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#53. You keep going to your bad place," she added. "I have one, too. I get trapped there if I stay too long."
"If you go to the bad place again," she said simply, "Tell one of us so we can help you back out.
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#54. 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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#55. Alice interrupted. No tears, no secrets. I want the life I'm meant to have, Etta. It's as simple as that. My father always says that the way to truly live is to do so without expectations or fear hanging over you, affecting your choices ...
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#56. 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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#58. You could read a hundred books about the attitudes and beliefs of the past, but the impact of witnessing this casual, ignorant cruelty firsthand was like having a bucket of ice upended over your head.
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#61. It doesn't make you a bad person, you know-to want to live your own life.
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#62. If each memory that drifted up were a star, I was standing at the center of a galaxy. Beneath vast constellations of lost smiles and quiet laughter. Whole, endless days of gray and brown and black that we'd spent with only each other to hold on to.
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#63. Ah, I thought, feeling the first brush of tingling warmth as we fell into the unknown. Magic.
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#65. Give me one reason why we can't be together, and I'll give you a hundred why we can.
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#66. I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too.
- Jude
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#67. Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?
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#69. I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.
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#70. I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
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#71. 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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#72. Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it's a vortex that can't and won't be stopped.
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#74. Chubs is useful," I reminded her. "Please try not to kill him."
"Yeah, yeah we'll see. All I'm saying is, accidents happen.
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#75. I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.
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#76. Because, my weird has been able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-Stitch.
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#77. 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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#79. 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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#80. Did you know ... you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight ... and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.
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#81. I didn't need to be liked. I didn't need friends, and I centrainly didn't need the kid trying to guild me into being something I wasn't. I was fine. Just a little cold.
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#82. Come on, you'll feel better after you get food and some sleep."
"That won't solve anything, either."
"I know," he said, "but it's a start.
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#83. If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?
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#84. 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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#85. Cate:"What are you doing?"
Ruby:"Locking Clancy Gray in a closet.
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#86. She sounded so incredibly proud if this, and I honestly could not have cared less.
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#90. 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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#91. I start to wonder if maybe the things we're so afraid they'll do to us are the things they have to do to survive the tidal wave of hatred and fear we send coasting toward them.
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#92. 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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#93. I rubbed my face with my hands, trying to clear away the image of Clancy Gray trapped down in the dark. That's where he belongs, came the savage voice in my mind.
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#94. 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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#95. D-Dorothy - " My throat burns. It's the only way I know the words are leaving it. "Guess we ... shouldn't have left Oz. ...
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#96. A mannequin? An unfeeling heartless bitch who feeds on others' misery and is physically incapable of crying, unless it's tears of blood?
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#97. You really didn't have White Noise? Calm Control?" I demanded, surprised by the anger licking
at my heart. What camp had these kids been in? Candy Land?
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#100. 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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