757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Do you always close your eyes when frightened? Alastor asked. Open them wide, stare down your fear until it obeys you.

All around the garage and house were pieces of me, but they couln’t put them together. They didn’t see the completed puzzle standing in front of them.

I’m not... I’m not without a heart,′ he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. ‘I’m not. I just don’t have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.

It doesn’t matter how great the lead cast is if the supporting actors don’t back them up.

Thing is, though, fear is worthless. It stops you when you need to keep moving most. And it only exists inside of your head.

I would have done anything, anything, to take the weight of that pain off her shoulders before it crushed her into dust. But I knew better; there was no real relief from it. You just had to be willing to let the people around you serve as supports, and take their share of it when it seemed too much, too heavy, to hold on your own.

It’s our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.

You may deny the fates, but they will not deny you.

Abbi described to me what it was to travel, to see the fabric of life spread out before him. He said it was ‘possibility.’ It is said that there is time enough for every purpose, and so you must continue to believe that there is a time for you.