Alexandra Bracken Quotes

“Ghosts don't haunt people
their memories do.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“Don't be scared. Don't let them see.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“Then he was stepping back, away, letting distance flood between us again. His voice was low, rough. "Give 'em hell, darlin'."
"And for the love of God, bitch, don't get stabbed this time!" Vida added.”

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“I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too.
-Jude”

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“Because, my weird has been able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-Stitch.”

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“-I don't want to lose you
-Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?”

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I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now."
"All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.

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“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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“I guess I don't see what's so insulting about being called a girl. The two of you seem to do okay when you're not biting my head off or acting like five years old.”

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“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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“And the open road rolled out in front of us.”

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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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“I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.”

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“Sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.”

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Seat belts. Welcome to Psi Services. I'm Zach and I'll be your driver on this epic quest to freedom. If you look out your windows
but, obviously, don't because Ruby just told you not to
you can give Nevada the finger as we pull away.

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“You want to hear the rules?"
My heart jackhammered as I nodded. That same hand slid around my hip, up under my shirt, and felt warm and perfect against my lower back. I closed my eyes as his lips just barely brushed mine. His touch made me feel brave. It pushed the uncertainty back until it couldn't reach me. "The first one is you can't think too hard about it. The second is you say when you want to stop. The third is you do whatever feels good to you. The fourth is-"
"-you stop talking," I said, blindly reaching back to pull the door shut, "and kiss me?”

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“Great. We were the goddamn Rainbow Connection.”

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“Also, screw you-maybe you can be all stealthy and break into their building to get the woman out, but I can get
us there and back safely. I did this for months and never got a second glance from anyone, including PSFs."
"Probably because your ugly-ass face blinded them on the first look," she muttered.”

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She didn't need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.

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“Is this how you got around before?" Vida wondered aloud. "It is a miracle you dumbasses survived.”

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“I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick.”

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“When someone takes such an interest in you, you have to wonder what it is exactly they're searching for.”

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Let me tell you what I think about your fucking rules," he said, his voice dripping with venom as he pushed past Liam. "You sit up in your room and you pretend like you want what's best for everyone, but you don't do any of the work yourself. I can't tell if you're just a spoiled little shit, or if you're too worried about getting your pretty princess hands dirty, but it sucks. You are fucking awful, and you sure as hell don't have me fooled ... You talk about us all being equals, like we're one big rainbow of peace and all that bullshit, but you never once believed that yourself, did you? You won't let anyone contact their parents, and you don't care about the kids that are still trapped in camps your father set up. You wouldn't even listen when the Watch kids brought it up. So what I want to know is, why can't we leave? ... What's the point of this place, other than for you to get off on how great you are and toy with people and their feelings?

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You realize that by doing this, all you're accomplishing is reinforcing in America-throughout the world- that the word different means bad, ugly, dangerous.

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“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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“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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“I would like to register the fact that this fucking sucks," she said.
"Noted," he said, shutting the gate.”

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“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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“Next time it'll be your nuts.”

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“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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I would have been okay, because you would have been there with me!

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“They had all of the pieces, and it just took one curious mind to put it all together.”

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“We have to keep moving. If I stopped now, I knew I would never be able to start again.”

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“I don't do well without you," he said. "Who I was before
I never want to be that person again. But I told you when I took you away from here that when everything was over, it would be your choice. You would get to choose where you wanted to go and who you wanted to be.”

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“He was looking at his friend and seeing a stranger.”

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“I see it in colors," I said. "A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It's a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.”

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“Anyone who questined me-I made them feel crazy for doing it.”

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You had day-of-the-week underwear growing up, didn't you?

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“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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“I'm not saving you, I remind her. But something makes me wonder if she even wants me to.”

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“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, especial when she slid the pistol our of one of the saddlebags and aimed it at him.”

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“Who I was ad who I had beed disconnected, leaving me stranded somewhere in the middle.”

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“You're important. You deserve to speak up and have people shut the hell up and listen to you.”

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“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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“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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“And the minute the doors slammed shut, his arm slid around my waist, his other hand wove through my hair, and I was being kissed to within an inch of my life.
'Hi,' he said when he finally came up for air.
'Hi,' I said, now both dizzy and breathless as he leaned down to rest his forehead against mine.”

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“Only, they've done such a good job of making this place hell that I wouldn't be surprised if the real one turned out to be a much nicer place.”

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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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“Wonderful. They had the rarest, most bewildering power in the world, and how did her family choose to use this incredible gift? To line their pockets with cash and go sightseeing.”

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“He ducked down, kissing her, and she moved against him, urging him to touch her, to find the secret self that only ever seemed to exist with him as he moved over her, with her,and she let herself fall into it, dissolving into him. And what she found in the soft warm darkness had no beginning and no end, for this was their own, and it created its own eternity.”

— Alexandra Bracken