Quotes From "Passenger" By Alexandra Bracken

My fear for you outweighs my fear of him, ” he said simply. “And I told you, didn’t I? If you left, I’d follow you.” But should you try to leave on your own, know that I will go to the ends of the earth to bring you back. Alexandra Bracken

Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out – and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first time. Sophia wanted it, when she was only ever sent out. Alexandra Bracken

–the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again. Alexandra Bracken

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder. Alexandra Bracken

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow. Alexandra Bracken

Like any girl, she still felt the echoes from earlier eras of repression. She'd been raised by a mother who'd fought hard to get a wage she deserved, to have access to education when she lacked every advantage, to travel on her own terms. The idea she was being asked-that she was expected to simply play along-made the blood throb in her veins. She was already in the damn stays. Wasn't the enough? . Alexandra Bracken

What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little--if any--recourse for finding a way around it. . Alexandra Bracken

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie. Alexandra Bracken

For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours. Alexandra Bracken

It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises. Alexandra Bracken

Dressed as a man, her horse unencumbered by anything but the bare necessities, she had the look of a survivor, a fighter, and he respected the hell our of her for it, especially when she slid the pistol out of one of the saddlebags and aimed it at him. Alexandra Bracken

He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit. Alexandra Bracken

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations? Alexandra Bracken

Love was selfish, wasn't it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of the inevitable. It made you want another's mind, body; it made you feel as if you deserved to own their heart, and carve out a place in it. Alexandra Bracken

Mind the gap, Jack Andrew Smith

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had? Alexandra Bracken

How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel?” “Maybe you don't have to move it, ” Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. “Maybe you have to climb it. Alexandra Bracken