Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at y...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Don’t be scared. Don’t let them see.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones.
No you aren't, he promised. Your one of...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN You do have a choice, you know,” Etta told her after a moment. “There is always a choice.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Und manchmal passiert einem das Leben einfach, und man kann ihm nicht ausweichen Es kracht voll in e...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in te...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your famil...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Life isn’t fair." I said. "It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always going to disappoint ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in thei...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN —I don't want to lose you
—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Why are you so weird?"
"Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-st...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Let me tell you what I think about your fucking rules," he said, his voice dripping with veno...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Yes, well”—he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose delicately—“the burner phone we h...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN They'd never fade, even in the afterlight of all of this
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN It rained the day they brought us to Thurmond.
And it rained the day I walked out.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I feel like I'm losing my damn mind, like your face has been carved into my heart, and I don't remem...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Liam cleared his throat again and turned to fully face me. “So, it’s the summer and you’re in ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Just shut up and start sucking each other's faces already," Vida grumbled, leaning awkwardly against...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it arou...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I walked until I lost the light from the fire pit, clawing at my T-shirt, trying to pull it away fro...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel?”
...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?
Yes.
Because dreamers...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN But hey, what's life without a little adversity?"
That had to have been the fakest attempt at o...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration th...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Try again, I've gotten much better at detecting your bullshit
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Chubs didn’t have to finish. I knew what I’d been when I’d found them: a terrified splinter of...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only way to survive your past was to find a way to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN What?” The word exploded out of me. “What do you want me to tell you? You want to hear about how...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I started at the beginning, the escape. Fleeing through the forest, meeting a new danger at every tu...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Let’s see if I remember all of this—born in Charlottesville, Virginia, but raised in Salem by he...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN You are actually the worst person I have ever met,” Chubs said. “And people like you are the rea...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Me and nice things didn't go well together.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN My fear for you outweighs my fear of him,” he said simply. “And I told you, didn’t I? If you l...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Do I look as pretty as I feel?
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN When I first read 'Outlander' a few years ago, I was shocked to find that Jamie was the comp...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American hi...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I absolutely love Johnny Depp, and I genuinely think he's one of the best actors of our time.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN From the time I was in first grade or so, my dad collected 'Star Wars' toy figures from the ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN One of the things I noticed while I lived in New York City was how different the kids and teens were...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Where did she come from, and where can I find one?"

"Picked this one up at a gas station ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN So help me God,” I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We ca...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Oh my God, Green,” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socks
...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN My, my." A feral grin spread across Cole's face. "Little brother must be a good kisser.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set he...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick," Vida said w...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN ...crackers..." a voice breathed out nehind us, "yesss..."
Both of us turned, watching as Chubs...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN That was not like riding a bike, you asshole!
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at y...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Forgive yourself, but don't forget
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Give 'em hell, darlin
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Good ideas had in the dark were generally best left there.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I can't--I can't think about anything or anyone else," he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging bac...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking t...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?"
Because you would never...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go thr...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Then he was stepping back, away, letting distance flood between us again. His voice was low, rough. ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN You can push someone’s button over and over again to get what you want, but there comes a point wh...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I would have torn this whole damn country apart looking for you," I said softly.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I don't need a protector,” Etta said. “I need a partner.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of exc...
EDDIE BRACKEN I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
EDDIE BRACKEN Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was ver...
EDDIE BRACKEN Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
EDDIE BRACKEN How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass
Everyone does this occasional...
PEG BRACKEN Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirt...
PEG BRACKEN We make it as real as possible using real people for rescue training and first aid training as often...
BRACKEN SPENCER You gotta keep going. You gotta have the hope there's gonna be someone down there and to bring closu...
BRACKEN SPENCER You get in here...there's trap doors, ropes, things you have to crawl through.
BRACKEN SPENCER You can breathe for one hour.
BRACKEN SPENCER It is unfortunate to hear when accidents happen but at the same time you recognize it is part of the...
BRACKEN SPENCER Every mine is required to have a mine rescue team.
BRACKEN SPENCER This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning ...
PEG BRACKEN The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that...
PEG BRACKEN When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much
PEG BRACKEN What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that does...
PEG BRACKEN Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirt...
PEG BRACKEN You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.
PEG BRACKEN Brett's the sort of bowler that's going to be attacking and at the batsman, which probably suits me ...
NATHAN BRACKEN Even Preston Sturges wouldn't dare to rewrite a Preston Sturges script.
EDDIE BRACKEN If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different pr...
JOHN BRACKEN Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of t...
JOHN BRACKEN Guys said some key things in the room to stay confident. We've been coming back on teams all year. W...
BRACKEN KEARNS I've never had a feeling like this on a team. It just doesn't feel like we're ever going to lose eve...
BRACKEN KEARNS I always play well in this rink, even if I'm in a slump. I have a lot of confidence in this barn. I ...
BRACKEN KEARNS It was so important for us for a variety of factors. We have not lost in the playoffs, so we have a ...
BRACKEN KEARNS We are all on the same page. We're not Gretzky out there. We have to work hard.
BRACKEN KEARNS Home-ice advantage would be huge. It's a smaller rink and the fans are unbelievable. Teams have a to...
BRACKEN KEARNS Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
PEG BRACKEN. Quite frankly, the community has lost confidence in the commissioners' ability to support the Black ...
EDDIE BRACKEN But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitem...
EDDIE BRACKEN Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
EDDIE BRACKEN I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emot...
ALEXANDRA KERRY Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye conta...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS For some reason, I find jogging incredibly boring, but yoga is the only thing I've been able to ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
ALEXANDRA FULLER No one starts a war warning that those involved will lose their innocence - that children will defin...
ALEXANDRA FULLLER In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly,...
ALEXANDRA FULLER And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. M...
ALEXANDRA POTTER No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pa...
ALEXANDRA ELLE That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often we...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect La...
ALEXANDRA PETRI I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school h...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh...
ALEXANDRA FULLER When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals&...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that sam...
ALEXANDRA PAUL In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward com...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-co...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chan...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES The cars we drive say a lot about us.
ALEXANDRA PAUL The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will ge...
ALEXANDRA PAUL Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over...
ALEXANDRA PAUL Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
ALEXANDRA PAUL The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxo...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I've always preferred food be on the blander side.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
ALEXANDRA PAUL There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove el...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.
ALEXANDRA PAUL Women have this obsession with shoes.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm very much a lead by example person.
ALEXANDRA PAUL If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your ou...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respect...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.
ALEXANDRA PAUL The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and gra...
ALEXANDRA PAUL People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectl...
ALEXANDRA PETRI I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end o...
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'diffe...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I wasn't all that familiar with the 'Texas Chainsaw' franchise, and I knew who Leatherfa...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I watched 'Alien,' and I watched 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' the Swedish vers...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no...
ALEXANDRA FULLER Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who com...
ALEXANDRA PETRI George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid ch...
ALEXANDRA PETRI Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and le...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching m...
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for una...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS I think it's important to convey to the women some of the variety of choices available to them as th...
ALEXANDRA TURALLO These kinds of people have absolutely so much to show.
ALEXANDRA TURALLO You can do it all in one place. You don't have to spend on the gas. And you can buy. If you go to a ...
ALEXANDRA TURALLO It's a nice girls' day out. It's a nice mix of vendors, a nice place to ask questions if it's a serv...
ALEXANDRA TURALLO What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD THERE are a lot of nice people out there who think good thoughts -- why not share them?
ALEXANDRA STODDARD The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD When we sip tea, we are on our way to serenity.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD All forms of self expression are linked.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD It was very hard, but we could not convict her of manslaughter in the other five cases based on the ...
ALEXANDRA SANDERS All the evidence they put before us, it just added up. On the other five, it wasn't 100 percent. We ...
ALEXANDRA SANDERS We took each one and just tore them apart. We were like six college students researching a paper.
ALEXANDRA SANDERS My heart goes out to the other five families. But we just didn't have enough evidence in those cases...
ALEXANDRA SANDERS If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail, ... I assume the writer is in middle school. E-mail...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Just as people used to fret about the rules on when to call someone back, ... now they agonize for h...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Just as people used to fret about the rules on when to call someone back, ... now they agonize for h...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail,
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS ...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS At middle age, a guy might feel his life is stagnant, with too much predictability, stability and ce...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of tr...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY