“I can't--I can't think about anything or anyone else," he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging back through his hair. "I can't… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only way to survive your past was to find a way… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“I started at the beginning, the escape. Fleeing through the forest, meeting a new danger at every turn, the desperation that came… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce. — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the darl.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“What?” The word exploded out of me. “What do you want me to tell you? You want to hear about how they… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“So thought crossed my mind," Liam said suddenly. "That must've been a lonely journey," Chubs said flipping the pages of his book.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“The most important-' I was almost too outraged to string a sentence together. 'Liam's life is worth more than that stupid flash… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the dark.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“That is physically impossible," Chubs groused. "He'd be--" "Actually," Liam began, "Cole once did try to--What?" "Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, "apparently… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Chubs didn’t have to finish. I knew what I’d been when I’d found them: a terrified splinter of a girl who had… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive,… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Some guy on the radio called us the “lost generation” the other day. I wanted to find a payphone and a few… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Joseph Lister?" Liam said suddenly, cutting through the silence. "Really? Him?" Chubs stiffened beside me. "That man was a hero. He pioneered… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Just shut up and start sucking each other's faces already," Vida grumbled, leaning awkwardly against the stump. She would never admit it… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“You are actually the worst person I have ever met,” Chubs said. “And people like you are the reason we have middle… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“God." He shook his head, mouth twisting into a shadow of a smile. "Did you know... you make me so happy that… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Let’s see if I remember all of this—born in Charlottesville, Virginia, but raised in Salem by her mother, Susan, a teacher, and… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“I'll teach you later, but for now I just need someone to watch the signs for me. Come on up to the… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“What?" he whispered. "What are you smiling about?" My fingers brushed against his hair, trying to smooth it down. I realized what… — 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 Image
“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 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 back. — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“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 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… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Better to risk helping someone than regret what you could have done.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
