The Darkest Legacy Quotes

“We’ve inherited the darkest legacy, but they don’t know that we’ve learned how to thrive in shadows and create our own light.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“I’m going to remind you that heroes frequently die, but the morally mediocre people almost always live to see another day. Don’t do anything that’s going to piss me off.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“As Vida always said, there are times you have to listen to your gut and tell common courtesy to fuck right off.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“As Vida always said, the best way through bullshit was to wade in, hold your nose with one hand and a grenade in the other, and cut straight to it.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Your world could be dissolving with grief or pain or anger, but the sky would still give you the most breathtaking sunrise of violet warming to shell pink.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Ruby used to say that we'd earned our memories, but we didn't owe them anything beyond their keeping. I guess she'd know better than most.

We were moving forward, and the past was best left to its darkness. Its ashes.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Hard exteriors could hide soft hearts, a chosen family could be more important than a blood one... and even the safest of places could be made into a trap.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“In darkness, you only need to see just as far as you headlights extend. As long as you keep going, it is enough.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Everyone pulls a bad card. What matters is how you ultimately play it.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Come together, leave together.”
― Alexandra Bracken (author), The Darkest Legacy

“The names we gave ourselves would always have more meaning than the labels others forced on us.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“I don't want to be your stranger."
I glanced back. "Then don't be.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“It was a good ten minutes before I realized Roman and I had been sitting in silence. I stole a look at him out of the corner of my eye, but he seemed unbothered by quiet as I was.

For the first time in a long while, I didn't feel like I had to say anything. There was no one to comfort tor convince. There was no one to charm or encourage. I disappeared into myself as I drove on, trying to find my center. I could breathe. Be still.

What I hadn't expected was how much Roman seemed to need it, too.

Some people feared silence. They did anything to fill it, talking about things that didn't matter, asking questions just to hear some kind of response. it seemed to me that a lot of people saw it as a kind of failure. Evidence that they weren't interesting enough, or that a bond wasn't strong enough. Or maybe they were just nervous about what it would reveal about themselves.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Everyone's entitled to stupidity, but they really abuse the privilege, don't they?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“If they wouldn't see us as human, we'd make sure they understood we were something more.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“One voice could be drowned out, but not a dozen. Not a hundred. Not a thousand.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“It'll be enough for now. Don't rush the horses.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Eyes of a poet, hands of a killer.

Who the hell are you?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Breaking a bad cycle can sometimes break a system. But breaking a system will always break the cycle. It's only a difference in the degree of certainty.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“She [Ruby] leaned down, whispering, "It's painful because we care. Don't ever stop caring. Don't let anyone make you cold. You are already the strongest person I know.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“It'll only be unbearable when I give up hope of ever getting her back," she said. "And I won't. Not ever. My heart is a wheel. It breaks all the damn time, but, most days, it just rolls on." [Pryianka]”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“To my surprise, he laughed softly, pressing his hand to his head and tilting it back. My eyes fixed on the strong line of his jaw, where there was a small scar just below his right cheek. 'Priyanka was right. I'm an idiot. You, on the other hand, are amazing.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“She could have been anyone’s grandmother—if it hadn’t been for the flaming bottle she clutched in her hand.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“I’d rather be the fool who hopes and works toward change than the cynic who does nothing and laughs when his doubts are proven right.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Desperate times, I thought. When were they not though?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“What did it feel like," he asked, "to hold a storm in your hands?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Nice,” Liam said”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“I don’t want to be your stranger.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy