It doesn't make you a bad person to want to live your own life.

I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.

—Alexandra Bracken in Never Fade

It's hard to be the person who gets left behind, and never the person who gets to do the leaving.

—Alexandra Bracken in In Time

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.

—Alexandra Bracken in The Darkest Minds

When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.

—Alexandra Bracken in Sparks Rise

Thing is, though, fear is worthless. It stops you when you need to keep moving most. And it only exists inside of your head.

—Alexandra Bracken in In the Afterlight

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

—Judy Garland

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

—Socrates

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

—Jojo Moyes in Me Before You

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

—Henry David Thoreau