“They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“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 escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“It's always easier to take something than work for it...”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“It's hard to be the person who gets left behind, and never the person who gets to do the leaving.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“Sometimes we don't know what we're looking for until we find it.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“What is it about horrible, violent things that capture us?”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“I want to laugh when all the characters start delivering the moral of the story, that all these things they’re looking for have been inside them all along—that that’s where goodness and strength live. They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“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 our secrets. Starting now, I'm leaving the past alone in the past.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“(...) It's like all the lights are on, but no one's home. No one cares.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“D-Dorothy—” My throat burns. It’s the only way I know the words are leaving it. “Guess we…shouldn’t have left Oz.…”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“I start to wonder if maybe the things we're so afraid they'll do to us are the things they have to do to survive the tidal wave of hatred and fear we send coasting toward them.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“If these parents had been paying attention from the beginning, not running around like a band of panicked chickens, all of them scrabling for thle last scrap of hope, none of them willing to be the one to stand up and question it, they would have seen the lie a mile away.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“We love you. If you need help, look for my parents - they're using the names Della and Jim Goodkind - and tell them I sent you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“The real problem is Mom and the rest of the people in this town don't think big. They're the kind of folks who are too satisfied with the small hand life's dealt to think that a bigger pot might be out there.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“I just want us all to stop lying.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“I'm not saving you," I remind her. But something makes me wonder if she even wants me to.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“Okay, two brothers and a sister. Interesting. If they aren't with her, they must be too old to be affected by the psi virus, in camps, or dead.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
“Nothing changes if you don’t take a risk.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In Time
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“If you didn’t think I knew what I know, why are you telling me what you think I didn’t know but might have come here looking to find out?” Shelby paused. “I’m sorry. I’m not sure even I understand what I just said.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Part of the human experience is to confront temptation. No one escapes. It is omnipresent. It is both externally driven and internally prompted. It is like the enemy that attacks from all sides. It boldly assaults us in television shows, movies, billboards, and newspapers in the name of entertainment or free speech. It walks down our streets and sits in our offices in the name of fashion. It drives our roads in the name of style. It represents itself as political correctness or business necessity. It claims moral sanction under the guise of free choice. On occasion it roars like thunder; on others it whispers in subtle, soothing tones. With chameleon-like skill it camouflages its ever-present nature, but it is there--always there.”
― Tad R. Callister, quote from The Infinite Atonement
“I wouldn’t make fun of someone’s nightmares until you’ve slept a night in his pajamas.”
― Jason Segel, quote from Nightmares!
“We were about a mile from school, on a path in the park, when Chirag reached down and took off his shoes, tossing them into the trees beside us.
“What are you doing?” I shouted in between breaths. Step, breath. Step, breath. He was a few yards ahead of me. I took advantage of his pause to pass him; I wasn’t about to let him beat me.
“There’s a tribe of Indians in Mexico who are the best runners in the world,” he shouted. “They run barefoot for miles and miles and never break a sweat.”
“You’re not that kind of Indian,” I shouted back, and Chirag laughed, his golden skin shimmering beneath his sweat.
“You should try it, too!”
“No way!” I replied without turning around to face him. “The ground is filthy. There could be glass or splinters or something.”
“Aw, come on, Maisie,” he cooed, coming up on my left side and getting a few steps ahead of me once more. “I dare you.”
― Alyssa B. Sheinmel, quote from Faceless
“the truth was not always what people wanted to hear; sometimes it was better to keep the burden of truth to yourself.”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
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