757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong – it wasn’t a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.

If each memory that drifted up were a star, I was standing at the center of a galaxy. Beneath vast constellations of lost smiles and quiet laughter. Whole, endless days of gray and brown and black that we’d spent with only each other to hold on to.

The only thing worse than being without you would have been watching them break you day after day, until you weren’t yourself anymore.

Hi darlin’, missed you something fierce.

The worth is in the fight, not the conquest. Do not give up.

There are rules, but rules may be rewritten if only one hand holds the ink.

If these parents had been paying attention from the beginning, not running around like a band of panicked chickens, all of them scrabling for thle last scrap of hope, none of them willing to be the one to stand up and question it, they would have seen the lie a mile away.

The spectrum of her emotions consisted only of calm and terror. She came back to us in full color.

The names we gave ourselves would always have more meaning than the labels others forced on us.