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“You are actually the worst person I have ever met,鈥� Chubs said. 鈥淎nd people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“What?鈥� The word exploded out of me. 鈥淲hat do you want me to tell you? You want to hear about how they tied us up like animals to bring us into the camp鈥攐r, hey! How about that time a PSF once beat in a girl鈥檚 skull so badly she actually lost an eye? You want to know what it was like to drink rotten water for an entire summer until new pipes finally came? How I woke up afraid and went to bed in terror every single day for six years? For God鈥檚 sake, leave me alone! Why do you always have to dig and dig when you know I don鈥檛 want to talk about it?”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here.”
― Alexandra Bracken

“Let鈥檚 see if I remember all of this鈥攂orn in Charlottesville, Virginia, but raised in Salem by her mother, Susan, a teacher, and her father, Jacob, a police officer. Attended Salem Elementary School until your tenth birthday, when your father called into his station to report an unknown child in his house鈥斺€�
鈥淪top,鈥� I muttered. Liam looked over his shoulder, trying to divide his attention between me and the boy reciting the sordid tale of my life. 鈥溾€攂ut, bad luck, the PSFs beat the police to your house. Good luck, someone dropped the ball or they had other kiddies to pick up, because they didn鈥檛 wait around long enough to question your parents, and thus, didn鈥檛 pre-sort you. And then you came to Thurmond, and you managed to avoid their detecting you were Orange鈥斺€� 鈥淪top!鈥� I didn鈥檛 want to hear this鈥擨 didn鈥檛 want anyone to hear it.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“I started at the beginning, the escape. Fleeing through the forest, meeting a new danger at every turn, the desperation that came with trying to protect everyone when you could barely take care of yourself. The boy with the bottomless dark eyes, the betrayal, the fire, the smoke. And by the time I realized I had told him my own story, Jude was fast asleep, tucked firmly into dreams.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only way to survive your past was to find a way to close it off behind you, to shut one door before passing into another, brighter room. I was afraid. That was the truth. I was terrified of the guilt and shame that would come flooding in when I retraced my steps, turned the lock, and found the girl I had abandoned. I didn鈥檛 want to know what the darkness there had done to her, if she would even recognize herself in my face.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade