Alexandra Bracken Quotes

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Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you're the one that raised me.

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A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

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Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.

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So help me God, I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won't stop, not ever, until I've destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.

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Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight...and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.

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I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.

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That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.

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I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.

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I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.

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I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.

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But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.

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The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

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But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

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The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.

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I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

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Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.

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What I'm trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn't throw anything at us that it knows we can't handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

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The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.

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Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn't easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.

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Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is considered an art form." "Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch-

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He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

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It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory." Chubs raised an eyebrow. "It's a minivan, not a Viking.

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They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

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I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too. —Jude

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I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at you, and I love you so much. Not because of anything you've said, or done, or anything at all. I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.

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