Alexandra Bracken Quotes

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

Next time it'll be your nuts.

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

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.

Hours of being asked:"Do you understand?" But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask."What does it feel like?

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?

If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

It's always easier to take something than work for it...

See how many doors open, Alastor said, when someone with influence and ideas comes along with a key? Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared.

Nope, " he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy.

I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions.

This time should have been no different. But it was.

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

Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?Yes.Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind.

My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?