“ For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours. Alexandra Bracken
“ Like any girl, she still felt the echoes from earlier eras of repression. She'd been raised by a mother who'd fought hard to get a wage she deserved, to have access to education when she lacked every… Alexandra Bracken
“ You are your abilities and they are you. I can't put it to you more plainly. Do you know why I hate this cure? It's a statement that what we are is inherently wrong. It's a punishment for something th… Alexandra Bracken
“ 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. Alexandra Bracken
“ 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… Alexandra Bracken
“ My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future. Alexandra Bracken
“ Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?Yes.Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind. Alexandra Bracken
“ 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. Alexandra Bracken
“ Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had? Alexandra Bracken
“ Love was selfish, wasn't it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of t… Alexandra Bracken
“ If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be? Alexandra Bracken
“ Hours of being asked:"Do you understand?" But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask."What does it feel like? Alexandra Bracken
“ My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that. Alexandra Bracken
