757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Power always comes at the expense of others, Prosperity Redding. That is the choice you make – the knowledge you live with.

Your ancestors carried the shield that bore her head,” Athena said. “They wielded her power until they lost her. If the shield should be carried by anyone, it should be you – you, the one who knows the darkness of men yet refuses to be afraid.

You are your abilities and they are you. I can’t put it to you more plainly.

A man made his own future. He chipped it from whatever hardships insinuated themselves into his life; he carved out the happy, glad moments to capture his gratitude for them. It came from the simple magic of merely living. Of surviving. Seeking.

Every time one of us would try to touch you or talk to you, you’d jump like we had shocked you.

Nicholas felt a rueful smile spread across his face. And a curse be on him for it, because now he knew her. She’d shown him her mind, and she’d opened up her heart, and now he knew the taste of her tears. And he was wrecked.

I just want us all to stop lying.

Power does not transform you, he’d said. It only reveals you.

And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless stream of ideas that were as flat as his voice.