757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

We were the same, in the ways that mattered.

Sometimes you had to push away the bad things until they left you alone for good.

These are the people we’re dealing with... This is reality. These are people who won’t hesitate to kill anyone who interferes with their orders. This is what hesitation has cost us. Revolutions are won with blood, not words. These photos have been out for days, and what have they done to get people involved – angry enough to stand up and protest? Nothing.

Together they had painted a rather vivid image in her mind of a man with a bloody sword, guided by a shrivelled lump of ash and ice for a heart, in possession of actual fangs and claws.

If he was hoping to read some clue in my face, he was going to be disappointed; I’d spent the better part of last six years schooling my expression. Whatever he suspected couldn’t have been the truth.

And you know what the truly sad thing is, Etta?” Sophia whispered. “If he’d asked, if he’d put his case forward, Grandfather would have considered it. I know he would have. Because being born a bastard in this family is still preferable to being born a girl.

I hope that when you have the chance to crack your world open wide with new possibilities, to meet new people, and to take a turn down an unexpected, new road, you do just one thing: carpe the hell out of that diem.

Ruby, what does the future look like?” Nico asked. “I can’t picture it. I try all the time, but I can’t imagine it. Jude said it looked like an open road just after a rainstorm.

I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. “I could kiss you!” Chubs cried. “Please don’t!” I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.