757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

He has gone to a place I cannot find him. I cannot sing him home.

I know you don’t want to scare her, but you can’t pretend that her life isn’t going to be hard. It’s not fair.

Like any girl, she still felt the echoes from earlier eras of repression. She’d been raised by a mother who’d fought hard to get a wage she deserved, to have access to education when she lacked every advantage, to travel on her own terms. The idea she was being asked-that she was expected to simply play along-made the blood throb in her veins. She was already in the damn stays. Wasn’t the enough?

Life is a blank page on which we write our destiny. A life lived by another’s book is no life at all.

His brother’s dream is here, alive. It has survived death and destruction; it hasn’t blown away with the ash that settles after his fire was put out. It will go on.

Of course. My girl? She’s incredible.

Thanks,” I said after a small stretch of silence, “for not giving up on me.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us, but don’t you want to be around just in case it does?

There is one side. That is the side of friendship and trust and love and that is the side that everyone should be on, and I am refusing to acknowledge that any other side could exist.