Alexandra Bracken quotes:

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

Up! you bag of bones!" "Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream....... You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!! "She's awake!! North said, kicking off his covers and kneeling beside my bed, a bright smile on his face. "Hullo my beautiful beautiful darling, feeling better today??

That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.

It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory." Chubs raised an eyebrow. "It's a minivan, not a Viking.

He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick," Vida said with a shrug. "You are atually the worst person I have ever met," Chubs said. "And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be~?

Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is considered an art form." "Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch-

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.

But hey, what's life without a little adversity?"That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.

And the open road rolled out in front of us.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around.

This kid has more mood swings than a toddler's birthday party.

Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.

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.

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

I had the strangest sensation of floating, of drifting farther and farther away with nothing and no one to cling to. I was standing right beside her, but the distance between us had split into the kind of canyon I couldn't jump across.

When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away. "Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them. "You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?" "A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.

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.

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

Clancy had taught me well.

You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.

I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.

The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.

Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight...and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.

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.

I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.

It's in our blood to start again.

He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.

Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?

Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you." "And that's the definition of a real friend?" "Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.

Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.

No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?

We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.

They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.

What good is strength if you have no sense?

He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.

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.

But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. "I could kiss you!" Chubs cried. "Please don't!" I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.

If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.

Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.

You are actually the worst person I have ever met.

If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.

I was just an okay person.

Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.

Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.

Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

I can't make it fade.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy

Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.

We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.

Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.

No spinning," I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.