757 Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

A soft heart only makes it easier for a knife to slip in.

That’s right, you get him, Mary. Don’t let him change the subject!

I’ve heard some people say life can change in a day, completely flipping you feet over head. But they’re wrong. Life doesn’t need a day to change. It needs three.

A flower is no less beautiful because it does not bloom in the expected form. Because it lasts an hour, not days.

Darlin’, if it were a choice between you and a hundred of Gray’s finest, I’d pick you every time.

They could think they’d taken the parts of her that mattered most. That they’d broken her. But there was a part of Leia that the Emperor, Vader, Tarkin, any of them could never touch. Her heart was a star that would never burn out. And she would outshine them all.

There were people in the world whose purpose seemed to be to serve as points of connection. They opened us up to each other, and to ourselves.

You had day-of-the-week underwear growing up, didn’t you?

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?