Ruby Quotes

“Hey Boo, I'm in this now, too, & I got a lot of experience playing assholes like they're fucking harps. You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're in this alone.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“So I left my wonderfully intelligent family and soaked myself in the bath and considered drowning myself. Then I remembered I still had chocolate cake left over from yesterday so I came back up for air. Some things are worth living for.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Who sent you?” O’Ryan asked. “What was your purpose here?”

“To...to tell you...” The words didn’t sound nearly as furious coming out of my mouth as they did in my head. The camp controller leaned forward, eyes narrowing into slits. “To go...fuck yourself.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“Jude: But I thought Fancy was the Slip Kid?
Olivia: Fancy?
Ruby: He nicknamed Clancy.
Olivia: Fancy sort of suits him.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“If we all had names to suit us, you’d be called Thorn in My Backside. Or Plague of the Gods.”


I prickled at his scathing tone. “And you’d be Miserable Blockhead.”


“Is that the best you can do?”

“Give me time. I’m half frozen.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“Oh my God, Green,” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socks
and put the kid out of his misery.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Liam sat at the edge of the bed, his shape bright against the dark. He held out a hand and whispered, “Come here.”
I swayed a little on my feet as I stepped into the circle of his waiting arms, watching his slow smile. I brushed the hair away from his face, knowing he was waiting for me. This whole time, from the moment we met, he’d been waiting for me to realize he’d known me all along, and he had never once wanted me to change.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“Stillness was a kind of violence in the hands of people who played at handing out pain.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“Oh, thank god. I saw you both on the ground & I thought you killed each other”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“If she's not alright, I'm going to rip out his heart and eat it." I nodded. "You really shouldn't eat raw meat," Chubs said.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“Black ia the color that is no color at all.
Black is the color of a child’s still, empty bedroom. The heaviest hour of night—the one that traps you in your bunk, suffocating in another nightmare. It is a uniform stretched over the broad shoulders of an angry young man. Black is the mud, the lidless eye watching your every breath, the low vibrations of the fence that stretches up to tear at the sky.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“His hand came up to brush the stray strands of hair off the back of my neck. I leaned back until I was resting
against his chest, nestled between his knees. “You okay now, darlin’?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy."
-Ruby, The Darkest Minds”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Love was a bitch because it shackled you as hard as steel cuffs, leaving you gasping and hollow for any connection.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“Ruby: I’ve decided. I’m putting my Gary on a diet.
Rosie: You’re putting him on a diet? How on earth can you control what your twenty-one-year-old son eats?
Ruby: Oh it’s easy; I’ll just nail down everything to the floor.
Rosie: So what kind of diet is it?
Ruby: I don’t know. I bought a magazine, but there are so many stupid diets out there I don’t know which one to pick. Remember that ridiculous one that you and I did last year? The alphabet one where we had to eat foods beginning with a certain letter every day?
Rosie: Oh yeah! How long did we do that for?!
Ruby: Em . . . that would be 26 days of course Rosie
Rosie: Oh . . . right . . . of course. You put on weight on the third day.
Ruby: That’s because the third day was the lucky letter “C” . . . Cakes . . . mmmm
Rosie: Well we made up for it on the last day. I was bloody starving on “Z” day; I was practically chasing zebras with a kitchen knife around the zoo. Could have eaten the zoo I suppose . . .
Ruby: You should have done what I did, I ate like a queen. I became German for the day and ate “ze cakes” and “ze buns.” Oh I don’t know Rosie. I think I’ll just invent a diet of my own and give those stupid magazines a run for their money”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“I see it in colours. A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It's a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.”
― Alexandra Bracken

“Her libido hadn’t been this awake since … she couldn’t even remember. It was as if Avon had come calling and she was buying every damn lipstick in every damn shade.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“Her life was one giant clusterfuck of crazy, she was the epicenter, and no matter what she did to outrun her own personally designed hurricane there it was sweeping her off to Oz.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“Never taunt the devil, because the devil will show you what he had, pitchfork in hand. The devil was such a showboater, and Preacher was even worse.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“His strut reminded her of a smiling serial killer, oh yeah, he'd kill you, but boy, he'd have lovely manners while he did it.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“He was just your average biker in blue denim jeans, thick-soled boots and a long-sleeved shirt underneath the leather jacket, nothing special she tried to reason with her clutching ovaries, little traitorous bastards.”
― V. Theia, Preacher Man

“I give him the kind of smile only shared between two people who desperately hate something and thoroughly enjoy hating it together.”
― Tracey Neithercott, Gray Wolf Island

“I wasn’t being noble. There was nothing noble about a thirst for revenge. It was about getting what I wanted, a chance to kill the king. And no one else would have to suffer because of me.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.

Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.”
― Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls

“Mornin’, sunshine!”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“When I caught up to him again, my fingers closed around the soft, loose leather of his jacket’s sleeve. At the
slightest tug, Liam turned, his blue eyes lit up in surprise. I took a step back and pulled my hand back to my side,
shocked at myself. It had felt natural to do it—I hadn’t been thinking at all, only feeling a very sharp, real need
to be close to him.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“How happy he must be, this Hobgoblin," exclaimed Sniff.
"He isn't a bit," replied Snufkin, "and he won't be until he finds the King's Ruby. It's almost as big as the black panther's head, and to look into it is like looking at leaping flames. The Hobgoblin has looked for the King's Ruby on all the planets including Neptune -- but he hasn't found it. Just now he has gone off to the moon to search in the craters, but he hasn't much hope of success, because in his heart of hearts the Hobgoblin believes that the King's Ruby lies in the sun, where he can never go because it is too hot.”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“Everything worthwhile begins life as a mistake.”
― Gareth P. Jones, No True Echo

“At one point, his eyes flashed toward mine in the rearview mirror. It was just for an instant, but I felt the small
twinge in my stomach as sharply as I would have if he had taken a soft finger and run it down the length of my
open palm.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“I felt his lips travel from my forehead, whispering something against my eyelids, my cheeks, my nose. His thumbs stroked the length of my jaw, but even they stilled as I pulled back and turned away from him. [...]
“I don’t want to lose you.”
He made a noise of frustration, his eyes clear and bright as he spoke. “Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?”
― Alexandra Bracken