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“You want to hear the rules?"
My heart jackhammered as I nodded. That same hand slid around my hip, up under my shirt, and felt warm and perfect against my lower back. I closed my eyes as his lips just barely brushed mine. His touch made me feel brave. It pushed the uncertainty back until it couldn't reach me. "The first one is you can't think too hard about it. The second is you say when you want to stop. The third is you do whatever feels good to you. The fourth is-"
"-you stop talking," I said, blindly reaching back to pull the door shut, "and kiss me?”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“A mannequin? An unfeeling heartless bitch who feeds on others' misery and is physically incapable of crying, unless it's tears of blood?”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this."
"Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the dark.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“...crackers..." a voice breathed out nehind us, "yesss..."
Both of us turned, watching as Chubs twisted around in his seat and settled back down, still fast asleep.
I pressed a hand over my mouth to keep from laughing. Liam rolled his eyes, smiling.
"He dreams about food," he said. "A lot.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“You gotta stand up and walk, Gem,â€� he said quietly, turning his back on them. “You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet.â€�

So I did.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“I grabbed Liam's arm as he passed me on his way to the tunnel door, kissing his cheek. "See you later tonight."
He stepped down into the tunnel, shouldering a backpack Cole had left for him there. When I turned to say good-bye to the other Stewart, he'd stooped, turned his cheek toward me, and was waiting. I flicked it with my finger, making him laugh again.
"You're impossible," I informed him.
"It's all part of my charm," he said, shifting the heavy bag on his shoulder. "Take care of things, Boss."
"Take care of him." I said, pointedly.
He gave one last mock salute before shutting the door to the tunnel. I waited until the sound of his and the others' steps faded completely before locking the door after him.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now."

"All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“I can't set my hopes too high,
'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.”
― Demi Lovato

“Ruin him.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Brightly Woven

“The crazy thing is, I had all of these plans,â€� he whispered. “What we were going to do. All the places I was going to take you. I really wanted you to meet Harry.â€� The window breathed in afternoon light. I felt his hand trail down the length of my arm. “We’ll be okay,â€� Liam said. “We just can’t let them separate us.â€�
“They won’t,� I whispered. “I was thinking…I know this is going to sound so corny, but…if there’s one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again—� Tears pricked my eyes. “I would, as long as it meant I’d met you.�
“You really think that?â€� Liam sat up and pressed his lips against my hair. “’Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She grabbed his hand and pulled him gently into the firelight. ‘We had one home,â€� she said. ‘Now we have two.â€� She gave Nico a big hug and the crowd roared with approval. For once, Nico didn’t feel like pulling away. He buried his face in Reyna’s shoulder and blinked the tears out of his eyes.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Wayfarer

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Don’t to that! Don’t just disappear! If you’re mad at me, then hit me or something-just don’t think that I don’t want to stay with you. I’ll always want to stay with you!”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“I wish you'd go a a little easier on him,â€� she said.
“He came in here thrashing a sword around. Was I supposed to stand idly by and do nothing?� he huffed.
“Well, you weren't supposed to try and rearrange his face with your fist.�
“I wasn't,� Nicholas protested. “He lunged up into it several times. I was only in the way.�
“You're ridiculous.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Passenger

“You realize that by doing this, all you're accomplishing is reinforcing in America-throughout the world- that the word different means bad, ugly, dangerous.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“When someone takes such an interest in you, you have to wonder what it is exactly they're searching for.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“I flew in on a cloud and came blitzing down from the heavens like a bolt of lightning on this kid”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“Also, screw you—maybe you can be all stealthy and break into their building to get the woman out, but I can get
us there and back safely. I did this for months and never got a second glance from anyone, including PSFs.�

“Probably because your ugly-ass face blinded them on the first look,â€� she muttered.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“They say every atom in our bodies was once a part of a star. Maybe I’m not leaving, maybe I’m going home.”
― Vincent Freeman

“The things which are denied to us in life will never create a cage for our souls.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Wayfarer

“of these were linked in my mind now. They’d never fade, not even in the afterlight of all of this.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“He was more p***ed off by us playing a game of who could think up the worst nickname for him."
"Let me guess, you won?"
"It was Boy Scout, actually. I mean, come on. Even I couldn't top Chubby Chubby Choo Choo.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight