“Life had the nasty habit of lifting me up just to throw me back down.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager. — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“I know you don't want to scare her, but you can't pretend that her life isn't going to be hard. It's not… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“There was something else that Hall used to say–that life itself was uncertainty, and the only remedy to its madness was to… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“But you're not even sorry; you just expect that I'll be okay with the fact you threw your life away for mine.840” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
So help me God,” I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word, I… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Because I'm not strong enough to survive seeing you with the League! I said. Because I wanted you, after everything you went… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
I had this almost secret life of going to 'Star Wars' conventions because,' when I was younger, Star Wars' had phased into… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“The real problem is Mom and the rest of the people in this town don't think big. They're the kind of folks… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“The kids in the League knew about the camps-vaguely. There were only a few of us who had actually lived in one… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
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… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“It’s just not fair,” Jude said. “None of this is fair.” “Life isn’t fair,” I said. “It’s taken me a while to… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Miss Vida" Liam said "has anyone never told you that you are positively the whipped cream on the sundae of life?" She… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together. 'It depends,'… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
“You just had to be willing to let the people around you serve as supports, and take their share of it when it seemed… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back. — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
“I’m going to guess you probably don’t want to hear about the time he pushed my head through the neighbor’s fence.…” “Was there a… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
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… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
“Better to risk helping someone than regret what you could have done.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
“Let me tell you what I think about your fucking rules ," he said, his voice dripping with venom as he pushed past Liam.… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
I had this almost secret life of going to 'Star Wars' conventions because,' when I was younger, Star Wars' had phased into the uncool… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
“It was nothing that would hawe seemed odd from the outside, looking in, or drawn attention unless you were really, truly staring at it.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
“The only thing Liam ever said about him was that he used to set his toys on fire when he didn't get his way” — alexandra bracken Copy Share
“I'm thinking that it's frustrating to feel like I know certain parts of you so well, but others parts of you..." What coud I… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share
