Through the Dark Quotes

“We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“Of course. My girl? She's incredible.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“There are tests, but there are also small mercies. Life tossed us up into the air, scattered us, and we all somehow found our way back. And we will do it again.
And again.
And again.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“I love you." It's our beginning, our middle, and one day--please God, a long way from here--our end. And It is the truth.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“The spectrum of her emotions consisted only of calm and terror. She came back to us in full color.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“His brother's dream is here, alive. It has survived death and destruction; it hasn't blown away with the ash that settles after his fire was put out. It will go on.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“Starting now, I'm leaving the past alone in the past.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“Crazy is only crazy when it works.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“Home is wherever there’s love; that as long as we’re together, we carry it with us. It will grow as we do. It will grow as we bring others in, as we bring the lost ones together again, gather up the embers scattered from the same fire. 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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“I feel like I've been swept up and dropped on my head in a world that looks like mine but is slightly different. Brighter, more vibrant — or at least missing some of the dust and grime that's collected over our lives after years of neglect. I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“But I guess what I mean is, being afraid can't be a reason for us not to do something now...'
'Our voice will only get louder the more of us we bring together.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“Crazy is only crazy until it works.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“And what? We’re supposed to take comfort in the fact that one day she’ll be rewarded for her struggle?”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“They’ll rough her up”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“It took me a while to understand that when you don’t like someone”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“Dad used to say that it took effort to think good”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“¿Cómo hablo con una persona en Aeroméxico?
Hablar directamente con un agente de ﬗ”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“Sometimes protecting yourself from the pain only makes it harder to face in the long run,”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“Uncertainty never becomes comfortable, but it becomes normal; we learn to deal with it the best we can.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“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.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“The thing is, there’s plenty about life none of us will ever be able to control. You have to let uncertainty become your normal. And that just takes time. You have to give yourself permission to let it take time, without beating yourself up about it.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“You know, the most poisonous thing about the camps wasn’t really our time there,” she begins slowly, “it’s how they tricked us into being afraid of the world outside of them.” “The world is kind of rotten, as far as I can tell,” I argue. “It is and it isn’t, but it’s always been that way, even before all this. We just were conditioned into a routine, so everything else feels overwhelming in comparison.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark