Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

I cant--I cant think about anything or anyone else, he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging back through his hair. I cant think straight when youre around. I cant sleep. It feels like I cant breathe--I just--Liam, please, I begged. Youre tired. Youre barely over being sick. Lets just... Can we just go back to the others?I love you. He turned toward me, that agonized expression still on his face. I love you every second of everyday, and I dont understand why, or how to make it stop-- He looked wild with pain; it pinned me in place, even before what he had said registered in my mind.I know its wrong; I know it down to my damn bones. And I feel like Im sick. Im trying to be a good person, but I cant. I cant do this anymore.

—I dont want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

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.

Lets carpe the hell out of this diem.

...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. .

I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes.I could kiss you! Chubs cried.Please dont! I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.

You wanna go build some shelves with me?

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.

Do I look as pretty as I feel?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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 wouldve been quite the catch-

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.

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

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.

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

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 youre afraid.