757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Your world could be dissolving with grief or pain or anger, but the sky would still give you the most breathtaking sunrise of violet warming to shell pink.

Either my adorably sadistic grandfather has done something terrible to you, or you’re about to inform me that I’ve died by – rather stupidly, if I say so myself – falling off a mountain,” he said. “Those seem to be the only two reactions I get these days.

When his hands were dry and chapped, he recalled the softness of her skin. When the world shivered at the approaching winter, he recalled the warmth of being beside her. When he felt the sneering judgment of the eyes around him, he recalled the invincibility she’d instilled in him with her belief.

Breathing him in wasn’t enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

No tears, no secrets. I want the life I’m meant to have, Etta. It’s as simple as that. My father always says that the way to truly live is to do so without expectation or fear hanging over you, affecting your choices. I want to know you the way you know me one day. I want to play my violin, make my mistakes, fall in love, live in as many different cities as I can. Would you really take that from me?

It was amazing how small you could feel when someone wouldn’t so much as look at you.

I’m scared to death of you, but for a completely different reason.

Nicholas felt a peculiar sort of envy for his past self, the young man who still existed outside of the barbed knot of time. The one who had not yet been crushed into dust.

This was the danger, the seduction of time travel, she realized – it was the opportunity, the freedom of a thousand possibilities of where to live and how to start over. It was the beauty open to you in your life if you only stopped for a moment to look.