757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Love was selfish, wasn’t it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of the inevitable. It made you want another’s mind, body; it made you feel as if you deserved to own their heart, and carve out a place in it.

It wasn’t a weakness to have those thoughts, to feel that need to help another, to save lives. It made one human.

An oath was, after all, a curse you placed on yourself.

I know I shouldn’t look, but I can’t help it, I have to see if it’s like before. Even with his mask on, I saw the soul beneath the stone.

We were the goddamn Rainbow Connection. All we needed was a Red to complete the deck.

I love you.” For whatever small comfort it was worth, he would have the truth between them now. “Most desperately. Bloody inconvenient, that.

The scars of what had happened were still there, not glued together to try to minimise the appearance of them, but glowing with thin rivulets of gold – more beautiful for having once been broken.

We’ll be living with a set of rules we haven’t had in years, and while there’s something a little wonderful in that, I just want this... I want to forget for a little while. outrun the hurt. This one last time, I just want to go somewhere no one else can find us.

But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.