757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that.

Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.

This time should have been no different. But it was.

I had the strangest feeling -- like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place -- that I wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be. The sensation made me feel hollow down to my bones.

Anger was like a disease to the soul, and no aspect of it was more contagious than violence. If it could be avoided, it would end a vicious cycle before it began. But this was a vicious society.

I knew I wasn't making sence, but I couldn't seem to connect my thoughts to my tongue. That feeling... How did you tell someone that?

Do I look as pretty as I feel?

In darkness, you only need to see just as far as you headlights extend. As long as you keep going, it is enough.

Tell me . . . just one thing . . . about your time?' he managed to get out.'Of course,' Etta said.'Do you remember . . . that couple in London, in the station?''The ones who were dancing?' she asked. 'What about them?''Would we . . . be able to dance . . . that way?' he said, finding it harder to catch his breath. 'In your time?'Etta pressed her lips together, clearly fighting to offer him a smile. 'Yes.' 'Though so.