{"author":"Alexandra Bracken","author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken","total_quotes":91,"quotes":[{"text":"Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["death","going-forward","living-in-the-past","looking-back","memory"],"id":3781,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out — and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first time. Sophia wanted it, when she was only ever sent out.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["strength","women"],"id":4887,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"Yes, well”—he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose delicately—“the burner phone we had accidentally fell out of the car, and someone accidentally backed over it. Because someone was in a rush after she accidentally alerted some skip tracers we were nearby when she accidentally used her abilities to move a light pole out of the road after she had accidentally backed into it.”“Someone better shut their mouth before I accidentally slam my fist into their teeth.” She punched his shoulder, and it was almost...Playful.“Shut his mouth, fist into his teeth.”“Really? A grammar lesson?","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["chubs","cute","vida"],"id":6959,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"The end. But I'm telling you now, if either of you breathe a word -one goddamn word- about Cate, I will come down on you so hard, they'll be naming hurricanes after me for a fucking century.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["vida"],"id":8704,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["etta","journey","rose"],"id":12833,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["ego","egotism","narcissism"],"id":16623,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["education","rights"],"id":18674,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it’s jaws and wouldn’t let me or my conscience go.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["teaser-tuesday","young-adult","young-adult-fiction"],"id":19210,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?Yes.Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["monsters","nightmares"],"id":23543,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"...What does the future look like?...'A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It's a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["inspirational-life"],"id":31430,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":91,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}