It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures. — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Every time one of us would try to touch you or talk to you, you'd jump like we had shocked you.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be. — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“And, in that moment, the person that needed me most was the one walking away.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Hadn't he shown me, time and time again, that he was willing to be my friend if I was willing to let… — 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… — 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.… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
From the time I was in first grade or so, my dad collected 'Star Wars' toy figures from the 1970s and '80s,… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“I left him with only that--the simple story that he had been with his mother this entire time, that he had helped… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only was 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
“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
“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
“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
“Liam cleared his throat again and turned to fully face me. “So, it’s the summer and you’re in Salem, suffering through another… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
I absolutely love Johnny Depp, and I genuinely think he's one of the best actors of our time. — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby. — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“You are guarded. You don't show your cards to anyone. There are times that you're impossible to read.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I’d lost and the person I used to be. But… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“And I know I won't get the story out of Zu, not the full one, anyway. That's okay. We're allowed to have… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Who says I would have?" I knew he meant it cruelly, that it was a weak moment and all he wanted was… — 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
“We'll be living with a set of rules we haven't had in years, and while there's something a little wonderful in that,… — 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
