Alexandra Bracken Quotes
He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.
He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.
You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.
A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.
They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.
Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.
But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.
Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.
We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.
Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.
Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.
That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.
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.
Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
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.
I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.
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?
You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.
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?
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.
Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.
If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.
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.
Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.
