Danielle Sullivan

“Showing you care about something or someone makes you vulnerable, because it gives the world another way to hurt you. But there comes a time when you have to decide if feeling empty is really any better than the risk of being broken.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Silver in the Bone

“I didn't like feeling things. Emotions were ever-shifting and devoid of logic, and they gave me no way to sink my blade into them.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You have to stay alive to keep hating me, Lark," he reminded me close to my ear.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Mirror of Beasts

“Nash used to say that living your life was like shuffling a deck of cards. One day you might draw a good hand, the next, a bad beat. But buying into that meant surrendering what control we did have.

Life wasn't drawing cards at random, it was choosing to pick up the deck, it was choosing how to shuffle, it was choosing the rules of play. It was the thousand of choices we made every single day, and the path those choices created for us.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Mirror of Beasts