“We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“But we are stronger for what's happened to us. I am stronger, even if I couldn't see it at first. We have been given the gift of understanding that we can come through struggle and pain. We have built new families in place of the ones that cast us out. We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“Of course. My girl? She's incredible.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“The spectrum of her emotions consisted only of calm and terror. She came back to us in full color.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“I love you." It's our beginning, our middle, and one day--please God, a long way from here--our end. And It is the truth.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“A part of me wonders if it's not what she went through that has shaped her into something so solid and strong, but the people who went through it with her.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“One day we will ignite and create a blaze that no one can put out, ignore, hurt. We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“His brother's dream is here, alive. It has survived death and destruction; it hasn't blown away with the ash that settles after his fire was put out. It will go on.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“Starting now, I'm leaving the past alone in the past.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“There are tests, but there are also small mercies. Life tossed us up into the air, scattered us, and we all somehow found our way back. And we will do it again.
And again.
And again.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“Crazy is only crazy when it works.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“But I guess what I mean is, being afraid can't be a reason for us not to do something now...'
'Our voice will only get louder the more of us we bring together.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“I feel like I've been swept up and dropped on my head in a world that looks like mine but is slightly different. Brighter, more vibrant — or at least missing some of the dust and grime that's collected over our lives after years of neglect. I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
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“The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them. ”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Alta
“That’s why they pay me the medium-sized bucks.”
― Karen Rose, quote from I Can See You
“It takes a child to say the unsayable.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from How to Be Good
“In 1918, anti-German hysteria was sweeping Texas. Germans who showed insufficient enthusiasm in purchasing Liberty Bonds were publicly horsewhipped; bands of armed men broke into the homes of German families who were rumored to have pictures of the Kaiser on the walls; a State Council of Defense, appointed by the Governor, recommended that German (and all other foreign languages) be barred from the state forever. Hardly had Sam Johnson arrived in Austin in February, 1918, when debate began on House Bill 15, which would make all criticism, even a remark made in casual conversation, of America’s entry into the war, of America’s continuation in the war, of America’s government in general, of America’s Army, Navy or Marine Corps, of their uniforms, or of the American flag, a criminal offense punishable by terms of two to twenty-five years—and would give any citizen in Texas the power of arrest under the statute. With fist-waving crowds shouting in the House galleries above, legislators raged at the Kaiser and at Germans in Texas whom they called his “spies” (one legislator declared that the American flag had been hauled down in Fredericksburg Square and the German double eagle raised in its place) in an atmosphere that an observer called a “maelstrom of fanatical propaganda.” But Sam Johnson, standing tall, skinny and big-eared on the floor of the House, made a speech—remembered with admiration fifty years later by fellow members—urging defeat of Bill 15;”
― Robert A. Caro, quote from The Path to Power
“An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -page 62”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, quote from Interred with Their Bones
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