Alexandra

“This is a place where we don't have to lie," he said, motioning between us.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“The wall I'd built up against the well of pain and fear and anger finally collapsed, and I began to cry. I sobbed, the way I had int he garage of my parents' house on the last morning before they took me, I bawled because it was such a relied not to have to hold it in any longer, to have to pretend.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“We'll be living with a set of rules we haven't had in years, and while there's something a little wonderful in that, I just want this...I want to forget for a little while. outrun the hurt. This one last time, I just want to go somewhere no one else can find us.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight