Claudia Gray Quotes

I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.

~ Claudia Gray

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

~ Claudia Gray

Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.

~ Claudia Gray

I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.

~ Claudia Gray

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

~ Claudia Gray

If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.

~ Claudia Gray

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

~ Claudia Gray

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.

~ Claudia Gray

Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.

~ Claudia Gray

But just because something’s been damaged doesn’t mean it’s ruined.

~ Claudia Gray

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

~ Claudia Gray

I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.

~ Claudia Gray

He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world.

~ Claudia Gray

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

~ Claudia Gray

Vic knelt by Lucas's side. 'You look like crap, by the way.''Thanks for breaking it to me gently.' Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.

~ Claudia Gray

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

~ Claudia Gray

In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.

~ Claudia Gray

The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

~ Claudia Gray

Thane had never been one of the idealists, he'd accepted Wedge Antilles's invitation not because he believed the Rebellion was pure good but because he'd learned the Empire was pure evil.

~ Claudia Gray

It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.

~ Claudia Gray

Your soul is bigger than your programming.

~ Claudia Gray

He deserves better than this. But deserves doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.

~ Claudia Gray

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

~ Claudia Gray

The only thing more compelling than love is power.

~ Claudia Gray

We are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?

~ Claudia Gray

You’re going to tell me that last night shouldn’t have happened.”No. I’m glad it happened. For too long, I’ve been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not have it mean anything. It does mean something. You mean something to me. But I’m not in love with you.

~ Claudia Gray

Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could—to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.

~ Claudia Gray

We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know.

~ Claudia Gray

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

~ Claudia Gray

But grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.

~ Claudia Gray

My hate is stronger than the dimensions, stronger than memory, stronger than time. My hate is now the truest part of who I am.

~ Claudia Gray

Answer suffering with kindness.

~ Claudia Gray

You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop.

~ Claudia Gray

Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.

~ Claudia Gray

Don't you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there.

~ Claudia Gray

You should go. I can't. Because you want to stare at the monster? Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human fire now. Or because you pity me? I couldn't guess which possibility he loathes more. I fold my arms. I can't leave because the door's locked. Believe me, I would've gone hours ago if I could have. Oh. Of course. Then he looks so abashed--so boyish, and so handsome--that I almost want to laugh.

~ Claudia Gray

That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.

~ Claudia Gray

We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.

~ Claudia Gray

Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.

~ Claudia Gray

The universe is in fact a multiverse.

~ Claudia Gray