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Through the Dark

Alexandra Bracken

Top 10 Best Quotes

“We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.”

“But we are stronger for what's happened to us. I am stronger, even if I couldn't see it at first. We have been given the gift of understanding that we can come through struggle and pain. We have built new families in place of the ones that cast us out. We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.”

“Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together. 'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past.”

“You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.”

“Of course. My girl? She's incredible.”

“Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.”

“Don't say passed away,' I tell him, drawing from my own terrible well of experience. "Say he died. Death is horrible. We shouldn't give it a pretty name.”

“One day we will ignite and create a blaze that no one can put out, ignore, hurt. We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.”

“We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.”

“A part of me wonders if it's not what she went through that has shaped her into something so solid and strong, but the people who went through it with her.”

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Book Keywords:

friendship, strength, death, love, fear, the-darkest-minds, family, going-forward, living-in-the-past, home, people, inspirational, looking-back, dependence, friends, memory

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