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  • #1
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Chubs is useful," I reminded her. "Please try not to kill him."
    "Yeah, yeah we'll see. All I'm saying is, accidents happen.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #2
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #3
    “Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”
    Taylor Swift

  • #5
    Alexandra Bracken
    “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

  • #6
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Why do you have to take every good thing we try to give you and break it into pieces?” Nico said. “You let them turn you into this...”
    “This is who I am,” Clancy snapped. “I won’t let them change me. I won’t let them touch me. Not again.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #7
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Black is the color of memory.
    It is our color.
    The only one they'll use to tell our story.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #8
    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #11
    “I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #12
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Better to risk helping someone than regret what you could have done.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #13
    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #14
    Alexandra Bracken
    “You’re important. You deserve to speak up and have people shut the hell up and listen to you.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #14
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Life had the nasty habit of lifting me up just to throw me back down.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #15
    “The moon is a loyal companion.
    It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
    Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #16
    Alexandra Bracken
    “You just had to be willing to let the people around you serve as supports, and take their share of it when it seemed too much, too heavy, to hold on your own.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #19
    “Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

  • #19
    “Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #20
    “Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #20
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Yeah, well, I decided to try running from my nightmares instead of diving into them headfirst.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #21
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Certain memories trap you; you relive their thousand tiny details.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #21
    Alexandra Bracken
    “I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the stronger you had to be to keep carrying it around”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #22
    Val Emmich
    “I do stupid things when I'm nervous, which means I'm constantly doing stupid things.”
    Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

  • #23
    “I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #24
    “Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
    No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #25
    “Time goes on even when we do not.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

  • #25
    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. You can hate yourself for being scared, but that’s still letting it control your life. Aren’t you tired of that same old shit? It’s just going to keep dragging you”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #28
    “Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomorrow and two days from now I will be just fine and I'm so delirious I actually dare to believe it.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #29
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #29
    Alexandra Bracken
    “Ruby, what does the future look like?" Nico asked. "I can't picture it. I try all the time, but I can't imagine it. Jude said it looked like an open road just after a rainstorm.”
    Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

  • #30
    Val Emmich
    “The me I am is not the me I was.”
    Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

  • #31
    “I only know now that the scientists are wrong.

    The world is flat.

    I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I've been trying to hold on for 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it's nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me



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