Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Alexandra Bracken

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

Blue

Eye

Rubies

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

Like You

Middle Finger

People

Breathing him in wasn’t enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

Breathing

Enough

Leather

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.

Adversity

Mean

Teacher

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

Ifs

Wonder

Would Be

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

Able

Moving

Surviving

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.

Air

Encouragement

Light

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.

Behind You

Locks

New Beginnings

Clancy had taught me well.

Taught

Wells

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.

Dad

Morning

School

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Able

Adversity

Air

Arms

Art

Attention

Beautiful

Behind You

Believe

Blood

Blue

Breathing

Company

Cracks

Dad

Dangerous

Dark

Depth

Done

Dragons

Dream

Ego

Encouragement

Enough

Eye

Faces

Fades

Fall

Favors

Feel Better

Fierce

Fire

Girl

Giving

Glasses

Gone

Good Things

Hair

Hands

Heart

Horse

I Can

Idiot

Ifs

Imagine

Jobs

Knives

Knows

Leather

Leave Me Alone

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Quotes by Alexandra Bracken

Alexandra Bracken

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

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

Breathing him in wasn’t enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

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.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

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.

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.

Clancy had taught me well.

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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