757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

The rage flared up in me so fast, so strong, that I actually forgot to slap him.

Nothing like it exists in the English language. It’s Portuguese. Saudade.

Both eyes open, Nick. He’ll make as if to cut your throat from the front as another knife slices clean through your back.

I love you more with every sunrise.

But we are stronger for what’s happened to us. I am stronger, even if I couldn’t see it at first. We have been given the gift of understanding that we can come through struggle and pain. We have built new families in place of the ones that cast us out. We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.

But you were like this invincible force to me, even then. You were a safe place to hide my hopes.

It’s not always the truth that survives, but the stories we wish to believe. The legends lie. They smooth over imperfections to tell a good tale, or to instruct us how we should behave, or to assign glory to victors and shame those who falter. Perhaps there were some in Sparta who embodied those myths. Perhaps. But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.

Your whole family fell from the crazy tree and hit every damn branch on the way down.

What’s past id prologue.