Ruby Quotes

“Who sent you?” O’Ryan asked. “What was your purpose here?”

“To...to tell you...” The words didn’t sound nearly as furious coming out of my mouth as they did in my head. The camp controller leaned forward, eyes narrowing into slits. “To go...fuck yourself.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“If we all had names to suit us, you’d be called Thorn in My Backside. Or Plague of the Gods.”


I prickled at his scathing tone. “And you’d be Miserable Blockhead.”


“Is that the best you can do?”

“Give me time. I’m half frozen.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“Oh my God, Green,” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socks
and put the kid out of his misery.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Liam sat at the edge of the bed, his shape bright against the dark. He held out a hand and whispered, “Come here.”
I swayed a little on my feet as I stepped into the circle of his waiting arms, watching his slow smile. I brushed the hair away from his face, knowing he was waiting for me. This whole time, from the moment we met, he’d been waiting for me to realize he’d known me all along, and he had never once wanted me to change.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“Stillness was a kind of violence in the hands of people who played at handing out pain.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“Oh, thank god. I saw you both on the ground & I thought you killed each other”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“If she's not alright, I'm going to rip out his heart and eat it." I nodded. "You really shouldn't eat raw meat," Chubs said.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“Liam turned his face toward mine. We weren’t even a breath apart. “Never,” he said after awhile. “Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Black ia the color that is no color at all.
Black is the color of a child’s still, empty bedroom. The heaviest hour of night—the one that traps you in your bunk, suffocating in another nightmare. It is a uniform stretched over the broad shoulders of an angry young man. Black is the mud, the lidless eye watching your every breath, the low vibrations of the fence that stretches up to tear at the sky.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“His hand came up to brush the stray strands of hair off the back of my neck. I leaned back until I was resting
against his chest, nestled between his knees. “You okay now, darlin’?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy."
-Ruby, The Darkest Minds”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Love was a bitch because it shackled you as hard as steel cuffs, leaving you gasping and hollow for any connection.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“He was just your average biker in blue denim jeans, thick-soled boots and a long-sleeved shirt underneath the leather jacket, nothing special she tried to reason with her clutching ovaries, little traitorous bastards.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“Hey—” I called.
Liam stopped, turning back up to look at me. “Be careful.” His blue eyes flicked back and forth between Cate and me.
“You too, darlin’.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“A clatter of metal against the concrete made me look back. Liam had moved on from the car to a nearby pile of bikes that were tangled together like brambles. He picked through the frames and spokes and wheels, working carefully, trying to get down to whatever he'd seen under them....

"Do you actually know how to ride?"

"Do I know how to ride?" Liam scoffed, leaning over the bike's seat so his face was inches from mine. His pale blue eyes were electric with his excitement; they sent a charge through me, sizzling the rest of the world into peaceful, quiet static. That last bit of distance must have been as unbearable to him as it was to me, because his fingers came down over where my hands rested on the busted leather seat. I felt his touch spread over my skin like late afternoon sunshine. His lips skimmed my cheek, his breath warm against my ear as he said in low, honeyed tones, "Not only can I ride, darlin', but I can give you a few pointers–

"Hey, Hell's Angels!" Cole barked. "I didn't bring you in here to shop around for yourselves! Get your assess over here!"

Liam expression clouded over as he pulled back, the fluttering excitement vanishing like a candle blown out. with a single breath. I must have looked as disappointed as I felt, letting out a small sound of irritation, because just like that he was smiling again as he tucked a loose strand of hair back over my ear. A softer, smaller smile than before, but one meant for me. It warmed me down to my bones.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“Her libido hadn’t been this awake since … she couldn’t even remember. It was as if Avon had come calling and she was buying every damn lipstick in every damn shade.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“Her life was one giant clusterfuck of crazy, she was the epicenter, and no matter what she did to outrun her own personally designed hurricane there it was sweeping her off to Oz.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“Never taunt the devil, because the devil will show you what he had, pitchfork in hand. The devil was such a showboater, and Preacher was even worse.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“His strut reminded her of a smiling serial killer, oh yeah, he'd kill you, but boy, he'd have lovely manners while he did it.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“I give him the kind of smile only shared between two people who desperately hate something and thoroughly enjoy hating it together.”
― Tracey Neithercott, Gray Wolf Island

“I see it in colours. A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It's a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.”
― Alexandra Bracken

“I wasn’t being noble. There was nothing noble about a thirst for revenge. It was about getting what I wanted, a chance to kill the king. And no one else would have to suffer because of me.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.

Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.”
― Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls

“Mornin’, sunshine!”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“When I caught up to him again, my fingers closed around the soft, loose leather of his jacket’s sleeve. At the
slightest tug, Liam turned, his blue eyes lit up in surprise. I took a step back and pulled my hand back to my side,
shocked at myself. It had felt natural to do it—I hadn’t been thinking at all, only feeling a very sharp, real need
to be close to him.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“How happy he must be, this Hobgoblin," exclaimed Sniff.
"He isn't a bit," replied Snufkin, "and he won't be until he finds the King's Ruby. It's almost as big as the black panther's head, and to look into it is like looking at leaping flames. The Hobgoblin has looked for the King's Ruby on all the planets including Neptune -- but he hasn't found it. Just now he has gone off to the moon to search in the craters, but he hasn't much hope of success, because in his heart of hearts the Hobgoblin believes that the King's Ruby lies in the sun, where he can never go because it is too hot.”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“Everything worthwhile begins life as a mistake.”
― Gareth P. Jones, No True Echo

“At one point, his eyes flashed toward mine in the rearview mirror. It was just for an instant, but I felt the small
twinge in my stomach as sharply as I would have if he had taken a soft finger and run it down the length of my
open palm.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“I felt his lips travel from my forehead, whispering something against my eyelids, my cheeks, my nose. His thumbs stroked the length of my jaw, but even they stilled as I pulled back and turned away from him. [...]
“I don’t want to lose you.”
He made a noise of frustration, his eyes clear and bright as he spoke. “Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?”
― Alexandra Bracken

“...here (in India) the diamond is the king of the gemstones. But if we use value and beauty as our criteria it is certain that, for us, emeralds hold first place, then rubies.”
― Garcia da Orta, Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India