"Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard."

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Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “In the Afterlight”, p.194, Hachette UK

Alexandra Bracken

#Reality Quotes #Needs Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.”

Source : "To Hell and Back with Anson Mount". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.
“Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.”
“What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel”
“So let's take our time to say what we want. Use what we got before it's all gone.”
“It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times â€“ it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.”
“I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.”
“Sometimes, you know, I just feel like I want a Coke, and I drink a Coke.”
“I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.”

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