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61 " I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we only arrive there after as series of chioces. The bible claims that the wicked act on their own desires and impulses, because God is good, only good, and He would never compel a soul to wickedness. That I`m supposed to count on justice in the next life, even if I can`t have it in this one. "
― Alexandra Bracken , Sparks Rise (The Darkest Minds #2.5)
62 " What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations? "
― Alexandra Bracken , Passenger (Passenger, #1)
63 " 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 (The Darkest Minds, #1)
64 " It's always easier to take something than work for it... "
― Alexandra Bracken , In Time (The Darkest Minds, #1.5)
65 " See how many doors open, Alastor said, when someone with influence and ideas comes along with a key? Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared. "
― Alexandra Bracken , The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding (Prosper Redding, #1)
66 " Love was selfish, wasn't it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of the inevitable. It made you want another's mind, body; it made you feel as if you deserved to own their heart, and carve out a place in it. "
67 " When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy. "
68 " I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions. "
69 " You gotta stand up and walk, Gem,” 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.”So I did. "
― Alexandra Bracken , In the Afterlight (The Darkest Minds, #3)
70 " You gotta stand up and walk, Gem,” 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. So I did. "
71 " You gotta stand up and walk, Gem,” 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.” So I did. "
72 " This time should have been no different. But it was. "
73 " Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had? "
74 " How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel?” “Maybe you don't have to move it,” Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. “Maybe you have to climb it. "
75 " But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh. "
76 " 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. "
77 " 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. "
78 " You still fight like a Fury. "
― Alexandra Bracken , Lore
79 " Don’t be scared. Don’t let them see. "
80 " Many humans do not care about what is "unfair," for it varies so much between them. "