Quote

What good is strength if you have no sense?

Alexandra Bracken

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Scottsdale
Arizona
Strength
Sense
Good
Life

More quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Image
Oh, I'm sorry, Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you. And that's the definition of a real friend? Oh, yes, just ask Owain. He laughed.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
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.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
Alexandra Bracken
Image
He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
Where did she come from, and where can I find one? Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
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.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
Forgive yourself, but don't forget
Alexandra Bracken
Image
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.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
But hey, what's life without a little adversity? That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
But part of surviving is being able to move on.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.
Alexandra Bracken
Image
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.
Alexandra Bracken