Claire Legrand Quotes

There was a magnetism to the Mortimer women, and they knew it, and they used it. It was their right, this witchery; they'd given up their souls for it. ~ Claire Legrand

How can the world look so perfect when I feel so broken? ~ Claire Legrand

If you will not choose a name," Mother Petra told five-year-old Girl from behind her enormous desk, "and if you will not answer to any we choose for you, then you will have no name at all." And ~ Claire Legrand

Being nothing felt quite the same as being something. Maybe she had never been something at all. ~ Claire Legrand

Right now is all that matters, because right now is what we know. The future is wide open, and the world is full of people who get scared and lie and are sad and happy. That is how it is supposed to be. ~ Claire Legrand

Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep. ~ Claire Legrand

People like us don't fight for our own hope," he said quietly. "We fight for everyone else's. ~ Claire Legrand

Have you ever watched people when they don't know you're watching them? Like in a movie theater or a concert. When people get caught up in watching something, their faces change. The lines on their faces get softer, because whatever they're watching has made them forget how they think they're supposed to be looking. Instead, they just ARE - just sitting there, listening and watching and being real. ~ Claire Legrand

Hope, she thought, breathing with the tide, was a choice that only those with resolute hearts dared to make. ~ Claire Legrand

She was night itself reborn on earth, a queen swathed in shadows. ~ Claire Legrand

A sword forged true in hammer and flame
Flies sure and swift
A heart forged in battle and strife
Cuts deeper than any blade ~ Claire Legrand

This is our fight, Sly Boots, not yours. You're not a witch." "No, ~ Claire Legrand

Time's a slippery little jerk, Fin." Dad sounds tired. "Things happen more quickly than you think. One minute you're a kid, and the next minute you're grown up and wondering what the heck happened when you weren't looking. ~ Claire Legrand

Or maybe, Zoey thought darkly, legends about monsters weren't so funny when girls were actually dying. ~ Claire Legrand

...another thing I'm not used to, another thing that makes me feel small and bulky at the same time. ~ Claire Legrand

How wonderful a thing it is, to understand someone else without even trying to. ~ Claire Legrand

I want to ask him about these things, but whenever I imagine doing so, I freeze up. I have always been better at writing things than saying them. ~ Claire Legrand

First you must give it a name," said the snake. "Naming a thing takes away some of its power and gives it to you instead. ~ Claire Legrand

But how can she change a person like that? said Victoria.
She just can. I'd never have thought before, ever, that I could hate music and want to leave it behind, but now
Lawrence Prewitt, said Victoria. Her voice was shaking, but she stood up and put on such a fierce dazzle that even Donovan seemed to wake up. Don't you dare ever start talking like that again, or when I get out of here, I'll leave you behind with the gofers. Lawrence smiled. I've missed your threats, Vicky. ~ Claire Legrand

I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken. ~ Claire Legrand

If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you're supposed to find the corners first. They are the beginning. ~ Claire Legrand

This is the way it is done. This is the way our fathers taught us." [Briggs]

"Your fathers," Val replied, "were full of shit. ~ Claire Legrand

WORTHLESS, USELESS ~ Claire Legrand

Some say the Queen was frightened in her last moments. But I like to think that she was angry. ~ Claire Legrand

I want to tell them about the stones piling up in my stomach. That my thoughts are tangled and wordless. ~ Claire Legrand

Perhaps if nothing else, what's happened has taught you that there is more to life - and even to war - than simply staying alive. ~ Claire Legrand

You cannot shy away from yourself. Look the world in the eye, and it can do nothing to hurt you. ~ Claire Legrand

We are more than what's been done to us. We are more then our anger. ~ Claire Legrand

I'm not like her. I don't steal people."
Mr. Tibbalt watched her, saying nothing.
The silence made Victoria bristle. "Well, I don't. ~ Claire Legrand

We live in a world where good kings die and those foolish enough to hope for something better are killed where they stand. ~ Claire Legrand

We are the light against the darkness, and we must continue to burn brightly, so others may find their way out. ~ Claire Legrand

It was important to dream. Dreaming tells us who we are and scrubs away the bad days. ~ Claire Legrand

A bramble took root in Val's stubborn feet. Maybe if she stood there long enough, briar tangles would wrap her up within an enchanted wall, and the wall would stand guard around the sleeping girl until the prince came and burned everything down.

That's how the story went, right? ~ Claire Legrand

Do you even remember how many people you've killed, Eliana?"
…
"Eighty-seven," she whispered as the gunshots continued. "Eighty-eight. Eighty-nine. ~ Claire Legrand

I wonder if Mom and Dad fell in love in a day, or if it took much longer, and if it makes a difference. If the way you fall in love determines how long you will stay in love, or if you will stay in love at all. ~ Claire Legrand

It was stuck in a state of collapse, this pit - a tiny, organ-shaped singularity, sucking down the bleeding ravaged bits of who she used to be. ~ Claire Legrand

She curtsied before the king, the shadow of Saint Katell falling like a sword across her neck. ~ Claire Legrand

Papa one told me that, when I lay dying - because someday I will, we will we all - I must not think of the things that frighten me, and I must not think of my pain. I must think of everyone and everything I have ever loved, for if I do that, those thoughts will follow me into death, and that far black place will turn bright and golden, as the world long ago used to be. ~ Claire Legrand

We all have darkness inside us, Rielle," he said, his voice rough. "That is what it means to be human. ~ Claire Legrand

Now that I've known a life with you by my side, I'm not sure I could bear that kind of loneliness again. ~ Claire Legrand

What are you? - Rahzavel
I am your doom. - Eliana ~ Claire Legrand

Pig! Pig! Pig!" the other girls began to chant, turning up their noses too. Girl's skin crawled with anger. That ~ Claire Legrand

She had forgotten how to care about the city that had taken so much from her. Forgetting was the only way she had found to keep moving every day. ~ Claire Legrand

That's what life is, you know: a bunch of baby steps, one after another after another, and sometimes you fall, but you always get back up, and eventually you get where you're going. ~ Claire Legrand

But at the time I feared he had sensed my love and had run as fast as he could in the other direction...Every time I thought about it, my throat clenched up and my stomach flipped over, and I wished the world would swallow me up so I wouldn't have to feel that way ever again. ~ Claire Legrand

I start to worry that I should be saying something. Most of the time I think I could be perfectly content without saying a single word, but no one else seems to function that way. There is so much talking in the world, and so much expectation to talk, even if you do not feel like talking. I find it overwhelming. ~ Claire Legrand

dried blood on Quicksilver's hands, ~ Claire Legrand

He was the steady voice in her mind that spoke to her when she didn't feel steady at all. ~ Claire Legrand

What I'm saying... is that girls hunger. And we're taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn't enough food for us all. ~ Claire Legrand

to all the girls who have my back-
the queens and the witches
the poets and the mothers-
to the girls who raise their voices
and
to the girls who light the way ~ Claire Legrand

She was so sick of all the Latin. The Latin was creepy. It was a language of the dead. ~ Claire Legrand

If you weren't, well, you
I'd want to kiss you right now. It was fortunate that the room was so dark. Victoria's cheeks turned bright red. ~ Claire Legrand

When I set the glass back down, I see the prints my sweaty fingers have left behind. I feel a sense of deep, sudden friendship with that smudge.
That is me. My aunts and uncles, my grandparents, my beautiful, beautiful cousins-- I am a smudge on their glass. ~ Claire Legrand

This marking, said Victoria, running her finger over a knot in the bark. What does it look like to you?
It looks like a heart, said Lawrence. He put his fingers on the knot too. They brushed Victoria's, and he drew back. I mean, not that I think about things like that, or
well, you know. ~ Claire Legrand

My chest is knotted up. I feel like a person standing in the middle of a crowded street. The person is screaming, but nothing is coming out, and no one's paying attention anyway. ~ Claire Legrand

She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane. ~ Claire Legrand

Lawrence disappeared the next day, Tuesday, which had always been Victoria's least favorite day of the week because it had no point to it. Monday was the beginning. Wednesday was the middle. Thursday was a prelude to Friday. Friday was the end. Saturday and Sunday were for studying, cleaning, getting ahead on everything, and sometimes shopping ~ Claire Legrand

Who are you?" the boy asked. He examined the stranger from head to toe and made a face. "You're ugly." "And ~ Claire Legrand

Victoria hated messes. She hated distractions. Friends were the worst distraction of all. ~ Claire Legrand

It's a strange feeling, when you hear a good piece of music. It starts out kind of shaky, this hot, heavy knot in your chest. At first it's tiny, like a spot of light in a dark room, but then it builds, pouring through you. And the next thing you know, everything from your forehead down to your fingers and toes is on fire. You feel like the hot, heavy knot in your chest is turning into a bubble. It's full of everything good in the world, and if you don't do something
if you don't run or dance or shout to everyone in the world about this music you've just heard
it'll explode. ~ Claire Legrand

I feel like we are playing the Quiet Game. When you're tired of playing and want to shout out all the words you've been keeping inside you, but you absolutely cannot lose. So instead you sit, and bite down on everything screaming inside you, and wait. ~ Claire Legrand

We all carry secrets' said the fox. 'The more we ignore them, the heavier they become. ~ Claire Legrand

No, but I'm Quicksilver's friend," Sly Boots replied, "and I won't let her do this alone." Lars ~ Claire Legrand

From sky to sky
From sea to sea
Steady so I stand
And never will I flee. ~ Claire Legrand

Dreams - even ones you were good at - weren't for hiding yourself in. ~ Claire Legrand

is that you read my thoughts using magic, and that's how you found out my real name." "Mind ~ Claire Legrand

I am going to die, her brain recited calmly. I am going to be stabbed until I am died. How infuriating. I have so much left to do. ~ Claire Legrand

You're the only one that fucking matters...only you...always. ~ Claire Contreras

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. ~ John Denver

People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world. ~ Claire Danes

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine. ~ Claire Forlani

Whenever the birds sing, I will remember you Claire. As long as the sun shines, I will love you. And when the sun darkens everything and the dead sky falls, I will hope to see life again, I will hope to see you. There was never much hope but a fool's hope and a fool am I. ~ Huseyn Raza

Florence Dodson was murdered the same night that Claire Guthrie shot her husband. For me, the story began with Claire, and I put Mrs. Dodson on the back burner in my mind. That turned out to be a mistake. ~ Judy Alter

I'm not saying I hate you right now; I'm saying that if I had a knife in my hand, you would be bleeding. ~ Claire Contreras

Morley joined them, and after a long, uncomfortable moment, Mrs. Grant decided to ignore his presence. The
guards didn't. Their knuckles were white on their weapons.
May I assist?" he asked, and put his hands behind his back. "I promise not to eat anyone."
Very funny," Mrs. Grant said. Morley gave her a grave look.
I wasn't joking, dear lady," he said. "I do promise. And I never make a promise I don't intend to keep. You
should feel quite secure."
Well, I'm sorry, I don't," she said. "You're just - "
Too overwhelmingly dashing and attractive?" Morley grinned. "A common problem women face with me.
It'll pass. You seem like the no-nonsense sort. I like that."
Claire smiled at the look on Mrs. Grant's face, reflected in the white LED light of the lantern she was holding.
You are really - odd," the older woman said, as if she couldn't quite believe she was even having the
conversation. ~ Rachel Caine

Jeez, Claire. If I didn't love you, you'd scare me. ~ Rachel Caine

First, you're sorry for invading my privacy for years, years before I even knew you existed. Second, you're sorry for kidnapping me, isolating, controlling me, and manipulating me. Third, you're sorry for lying to me, pretending you cared and oh yearh, marrying me. Fourth, listen carefully Tony, this is the big one ... you're sorry for framing me for attempted murder, resulting in incarceration in a federal penitentiary."
"I am deeply sorry for one and four. I did provide you with an alternative destination for number four. I am not proud of two, but three would never have happened without it. I am not, and never will be sorry for three. And, for the record, I never lied about or pretended to love you. I didn't realize it at first, but I have loved you since before you knew my name. And, you forgot our divorce. I am sincerely sorry for that also. ~ Aleatha Romig

All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she'd taken on the world's hurt; she held herself responsible. But why? ~ Elin Hilderbrand

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself. ~ Rachel Caine

When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching. ~ Claire Denis

Oh, the best dancers know/what grace/every stumble/contains. ~ Em Claire

She can hear it," Jem said, smiling into his sister's face.
"How do you know?" Claire asked, curious. Jem looked up at her, surprised.
"She says so. ~ Diana Gabaldon

There are no such thing as ghosts." Joseph replied.
"There are supposedly no such things as Vampires and yet here you are." Grace quipped flippantly. ~ Claire E. Cruddas

But I have seen many men for whom death truly is the end walk towards their demise for reasons no greater than that it was what they were told to do. On the beaches of Normandy, where the bodies floated in the water beside the falling ramps of the landing craft, I saw men run into machine-gun fire who would say, "Hell, I never thought it would come to this, but now I'm here, what's a guy to do?" With no going back, and no going forward, they went to their deaths with no better plan immediately to hand, having gambled that their choices would not narrow so far, and having been found to be wrong. ~ Claire North

They aren't monsters!"
Her mother whispered, "Yes, they are. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians. ~ Claire Tomalin

Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better. ~ Claire LaZebnik

There are people, at the moment, who feel that all the important questions have been answered; all the important moral and ethical dilemmas have an answer; and that, at this point in history, everything's been worked out – and anyone who's exploring different ideas, or is doutbtful about these moral issues, is...evil.

...So I come from a different approach where, like, 'I don't know what's going on. I'm trying to work it out with other people, and I want the freedom to be able to explore. ~ Claire Lehmann

Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it. ~ Claire Tomalin

It's not how long you live somewhere that makes it home. Home is a feeling here, (she tapped on the chest). That you belong somewhere and somewhere belongs to you. But i will tell you a secret. Some people don't feel they belong anywhere. No matter where they are, they are always unhappy. They go from place to place trying to find peace. And usually they find themselves back where they started. ~ Claire Hajaj

She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies. ~ Rachel Caine

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. ~ Claire Denis

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through. ~ Claire Messud

I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In ~ Claire Messud

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself. ~ Claire Danes

If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your 21 y/o self? Answer: Think about your actions. They have consequences. ~ Claire Contreras

I amazed myself, above all, with how well I was able to manage. Michel got to school on time, his teeth brushed and his clothes clean. More or less clean: I was less critical of a few spots on his trousers than Claire would have been, but then I was his father. I've never tried to be 'both father and mother' to him, the way some half-assed, home-made-sweater-wearing head of a single-parent household put it once in some bullshit programme I saw on afternoon TV. ~ Herman Koch

The subject of so many films is the protection of the victim, and I think, I don't give a damn about those things. It's not the job of films to nurse people. With what's happening in the chemistry of love, I don't want to be a nurse or a doctor, I just want to be an observer."

As a child, Claire Denis wished to be a nurse; she is no longer a child. Years have passed and soon we love this world, so soon we are willing to coexist with dust in our eyes. ~ Claudia Rankine

You okay?" Eve asked her. Claire nodded, still gasping. "Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigger than Pilates. ~ Rachel Caine

It takes a lot of courage to be a true slave, Jaime, ~ Claire Thompson