Alexandra Bracken

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1987-02-27

Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

• What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little--if any--recourse for finding a way around it.

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• Like any girl, she still felt the echoes from earlier eras of repression. She'd been raised by a mother who'd fought hard to get a wage she deserved, to have access to education when she lacked every advantage, to travel on her own terms. The idea she was being asked-that she was expected to simply play along-made the blood throb in her veins. She was already in the damn stays. Wasn't the enough?

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• He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind

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• She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

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• I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.

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• Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.

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• You are your abilities and they are you. I can't put it to you more plainly. Do you know why I hate this cure? It's a statement that what we are is inherently wrong. It's a punishment for something that isn't our fault - all because they can't control their fear about what we can do, anymore than they can control their resentment that there are people out there stronger and more powerful than they are. They want to strip you of yourself - your ability to protect and enforce your right to make decisions about your life. Your own body. Mark my words: in the end, it won't be a choice. They'll decide this for you.

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• You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.

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• I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around.

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• Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

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• — the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

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• Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out — and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first time. Sophia wanted it, when she was only ever sent out.

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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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• Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the fence kept them in, than to be out there in the world struggling to find shelter and food. They had decided that the loss of some was worth the temporary comfort of many.

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• My fear for you outweighs my fear of him,— he said simply. "And I told you, didn't I? If you left, I'd follow you."But should you try to leave on your own, know that I will go to the ends of the earth to bring you back.

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• She shows up everywhere, at any time, like she can guesswhat we're going to do before we do it.—"The lady is good at what she does," Liam confirmed.—Can you please not compliment the person trying to drag our asses back to camp?

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• Oh my God, Green,— I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. —Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.

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• Do I look as pretty as I feel?

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• When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

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• ...crackers... a voice breathed out nehind us, yesss...Both of us turned, watching as Chubs twisted around in his seat and settled back down, still fast asleep. I pressed a hand over my mouth to keep from laughing. Liam rolled his eyes, smiling. .

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