alexandra bracken Quotes

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

- Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

- Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?Yes.Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind.

- Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight

You gotta stand up and walk, Gem,” he said quietly, turning his back on them. “You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet. So I did.

- Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight

Life isn’t fair." I said. "It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You’ll make plans, and it’ll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they’ll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.

- Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

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

- Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel?” “Maybe you don't have to move it,” Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. “Maybe you have to climb it.

- Alexandra Bracken, Passenger

Do I look as pretty as I feel?

- Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

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?

- Alexandra Bracken

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

- Alexandra Bracken, Passenger

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.