Sparks Rise Quotes

“He has gone to a place I cannot find him. I cannot sing him home.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“Anything can break if you hit it hard enough. Aren't we all proof of that?”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“Sometimes we have to bend," she says, "to survive.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“How can you miss something, feel so awful about it, when you're not sure you had it in the first place?”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“I know I shouldn't look, but I can't help it, I have to see if it's like before. Even with his mask on, I saw the soul beneath the stone.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“Only, they've done such a good job of making this place hell that I wouldn't be surprised if the real one turned out to be a much nicer place.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“It takes a sharp blade, a huge effort to separate one half of a coin from the other. It would take something a hell of a lot stronger and sharper to separate me from her.”
― Alexandra Bracken , Sparks Rise

“There is nothing, not even a flicker of life in his face.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“They will never have this, will they? They might not ever know the feeling of cozying up to a lightning bolt, what it feels like to look at someone's face and see your heart there.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“My eyes kept skipping back to her, drawn to her face like a lone candle flame in the dark”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“There is a girl with sunshine hair who turns my world to shreds. She burns my eyes, breaks my thoughts to pieces. There is a glow around her like the sky at noon, but it narrows, the image, it shrinks, and the pain eases its grip into numb nothing. It shrinks and shrinks again until it becomes a pinprick of life in the dark.
A spark that fades to nothing at all.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“It doesn't make sense. She's in pain, we are in actual hell, and none of it seems to matter.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“I know all of it is true, but I also know, on a very basic, human level, hers is the most beautiful face I've ever seen. They must have created art specifically for people like her, to try and fail forever to capture these small looks, all her various angles and the colors of her moods.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise