mitchellturner:

READ IN 2017: passenger, by alexandra bracken

She wondered if, in moving outside of the natural flow of time, they had forgotten the most crucial point of life—that it wasn’t meant to be lived for the past, or even the future, but for each present moment.

sweetheartwrites:

diverse ya lit meme // [3/7] characters of color
nicholas carter » passenger, alexandra bracken

“Know this, pirate,” he said, his hands gripping the railing, “you are my passenger, and I will be damned before I let any harm come to you.”

cliffedges:

books read 2016 | passenger by alex bracken

this was the danger, the seduction of time travel, she realized — it was the opportunity, the freedom of a thousand possibilities of where to live and how to start over. it was the beauty open to you in your life if you only stopped for a moment to look. those things drowned out even the most basic dangers of collapsing passages, of being lost, of finding yourself in an unfriendly time.

yabookjunkies:

Passenger: Alexandra Bracken

_{It matter not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.}