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“Lose your dream, you lose your mind.”
― The Rolling Stones

“The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“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

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

“What?â€� The word exploded out of me. “What 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—or, hey! How about that time a PSF once beat in a girl’s 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’s sake, leave me alone! Why do you always have to dig and dig when you know I don’t 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’s see if I remember all of this—born 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—â€�
“Stop,â€� I muttered. Liam looked over his shoulder, trying to divide his attention between me and the boy reciting the sordid tale of my life. “—but, 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’t wait around long enough to question your parents, and thus, didn’t pre-sort you. And then you came to Thurmond, and you managed to avoid their detecting you were Orange—â€� “Stop!â€� I didn’t want to hear this—I didn’t 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

“Chubs didn’t have to finish. I knew what I’d been when I’d found them: a terrified splinter of a girl who had been shattered a long time ago. I had nothing, and no one, and no real place to go. Maybe I was still broken and would always be—but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged edge at a time.”
― 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’t want to know what the darkness there had done to her, if she would even recognize herself in my face.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

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

“Life isn’t fair,â€� I said. “It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always
going to disappoint you in some way or another. You’ll make plans, and it’ll
push you in another direction. You will love people, and they’ll be taken
away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something
and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try
to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your
hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade