757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged edge at a time.

What a privilege it was to never feel like you had to take stock of your surroundings, or gauge everyone’s reactions to the color of your skin.

Interesting, though, that in the end we’re all just dogs.

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

Monsters lived in the shadows. To hunt them, you couldn’t be afraid to follow. And the only way to destroy them was to have the sharper teeth and the darker heart.

I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy 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.

I already felt like the freak of freaks without the added realization that I lacked the basic ability of communicating normally with other human beings.

When the deaths finally came to light, my elementary school put a strict ban on teachers and staff talking to us about what was then called Everheart’s disease, after Micheal Everheart, the first know kid to have died of it. Soon, someone somewhere decided to give it a proper name: Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration – IAAN for short. And then it wasn’t just Micheal’s disease. It was all of ours.

It’s just that I don’t like the quiet. I don’t like the things I hear there.