757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Because the lives you had before-that we all had before-we can never get them back. But there’s a beginning in an end, you know? It’s true that you can’t reclaim what you had, but you can lock in up behind you. Start fresh.

I chose to stay in,” he told her. “I’m not leaving before I get the ones who caged me.

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.

I brushed the hair away from his face, knowing he was waiting for me. This whole time, from the moment we met, he’d been waiting for me to realize he’d known me all along, and he had never once wanted me to change.

People don’t live like islands.

Monsters had fangs, but that was why lionesses were given claws.

Who says I would have?” I knew he meant it cruelly, that it was a weak moment and all he wanted was for me to feel as much pain as he did, but there wasn’t enough venom in his words for them to sting. He just wasn’t capable of it.

He could silence me, but he had no power over my mind.

Alice had this magical look about her, like she would be at home in front of a hearth, wrapped in a large quilt, telling nursery rhymes to sweet-faced forest critters.