757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Sometimes you’re the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don’t mean to. And 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.

I want to feel every ounce of pain and happiness life can serve up, because it’ll mean I’ve survived. It’ll mean I’m alive.

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

Go ahead, then.” Clancy’s teeth were stained with blood as he smiled. “Finish it. I finished what I came to do. And you all-” He turned toward the huddled masses of kids around him, his eyes focusing on Nico. The boy trembled under the intensity of his gaze. “You all can thank me when you can still fight back. I saved us. I SAVED US.

Walking through your memories doesn’t tell me what’s going on inside of your head. No cause, only effect.

Ir’s just that nowadays people are so quick to boil you down to the bare bones of info and upload you into a system, you know? And I think no one can ever really know another person unless you really pay attention... I don’t want to just see someone’s face; I want to know his shadow, too.

What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, life is good. It doesn’t throw you anything at us that we can’t handle.

That she’d looked at him as though he was the last treasure to be had in the world?

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