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

—Alexandra Bracken in Sparks Rise

About Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken (born February 27, 1987) is an American author known for The Darkest Minds series and Passenger series.

More quotations from Alexandra Bracken

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

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

—Alexandra Bracken in The Darkest Minds

How can you miss something, feel so awful about it, when you're not sure you had it in the first place?

—Alexandra Bracken in Sparks Rise

Life isn't fair. 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 in Never Fade

It's not worth it to weigh what you could have done or should have done when there's no way of changing it.

—Alexandra Bracken in Never Fade

History

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