With it, or upon it. It was what countless Spartan mothers had said to their sons and husbands as they handed them their shields before battle. For a society that loathed rhipsaspides – shield droppers who turned coward and threw them down to escape, or those men who lost them in the fight – there were two avenues for returning home: victorious, or carried home dead upon your shield.

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Alexandra Bracken Quotes

I shall always do what must be done,” Athena said. “Yet the question remains – will you?

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If there were once heroes, they are all gone now,” her father said, rising. “Only the monsters remain.

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Everyone’s entitled to stupidity, but they really abuse the privilege, don’t they?

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But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.

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Anger was like a disease to the soul, and no aspect of it was more contagious than violence. If it could be avoided, it would end a vicious cycle before it began. But this was a vicious society.

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I chose to stay in,” he told her. “I’m not leaving before I get the ones who caged me.

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I love you more with every sunrise.

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She would never be more than what she was now: a girl standing at the threshold of a secret world, without a key to unlock the way.

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He said nothing, but, then, he never needed to. His face was a book that had been written only for her. Its story unfolded while he watched her watch him.

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She could have been anyone’s grandmother – if it hadn’t been for the flaming bottle she clutched in her hand.

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He became the answer to every doubt and lingering question.

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I will never hurt you, or yell at you, or let you go hungry. I will protect you for the rest of my life. I will never fully understand what you’ve been through, but I will always listen when you need to get something out. Do you understand?

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Tradition should not stand if its roots are rotten.

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There are far worse things to become than a monster.

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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.

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It’s the feeling you get when you realize something you once lost is lost forever, and you can never get it back again.

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Interesting” had been his only comment.

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Let the dead die, Tamsy,” he told me once “It’s only memory that truly pains us, and they release it when they go.

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The problem with siblings, I decided, was that they spent years gathering up all these little daggers of observation and learning exactly where to slip them between your bones.

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A library was a home to those who dreamt of better places.

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