Sparks Rise
Alexandra Bracken
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He has gone to a place I cannot find him. I cannot sing him home.”
“I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we only arrive there after as series of chioces. The bible claims that the wicked act on their own desires and impulses, because God is good, only good, and He would never compel a soul to wickedness. That I`m supposed to count on justice in the next life, even if I can`t have it in this one.”
“When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”
“Anything can break if you hit it hard enough. Aren't we all proof of that?”
“Sometimes we have to bend," she says, "to survive.”
“Maybe that's the whole point-life showing me how good it could be, letting me have it just long enough to want it more than I've ever wanted anything else, only to rip it away. When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”
“I want to feel every ounce of pain and happiness life can serve up, because it'll mean I've survived. It'll mean I'm alive.”
“It took me a while to understand that when you don’t like someone, nothing they can say or do will ever seem right. Something as harmless as giving a kid a cookie becomes something aggressive, a challenge to their authority.”
“Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it’s a vortex that can’t and won’t be stopped.”
“I glide under a sky so blue, so purple, so golden I fight as hard as anything to keep my eyes open, because I want to remember it forever, however long that lasts. Because I know it'll be the last thing I see.”
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