Claudia Gray Quotes

As for she's concerned the world has two king of people in it: predators and prey. ~ Claudia Gray

There is a strength within us that we can't even comprehend until it's called upon. We are, at our core, built to survive. ~ Claudia Gray

Lights are on, and I'm not in pain, and never before have I been so keenly aware that this is all anyone really needs. ~ Claudia Gray

But she understood how to interpret shadows. ~ Claudia Gray

Eternal awesome, however elusive, is no reason to take off in a submarine. ~ Claudia Gray

Skype is a much better way to keep in touch. ~ Claudia Gray

I wish I could put it back together again. Not as it was before- that is of course impossible. But enough to see it, truly see it, as it once was. ~ Claudia Gray

She looks up into the darkening sky, she knows she'll never stop hoping. Never stop searching the stars, wondering whether any of them could be the one Abel someday calls home. ~ Claudia Gray

I loved you enough to give you up. ~ Claudia Gray

What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found. ~ Claudia Gray

There are patterns within the dimensions," Paul insisted, never looking up again. "Mathematical parallels. It's plausible to hypothesize that these patterns will be reflected in events and people in each dimension. That people who have met in one quantum reality will be likely to meet in another. Certain things that happen will happen over and over, in different ways, but more often than you could explain by chance alone."
"In other words," I said, "you're trying to prove the existence of fate."
I was joking, but Paul nodded slowly, like I'd said something intelligent. "Yes. That's it exactly. ~ Claudia Gray

There's not enough WTF in the world. ~ Claudia Gray

A Chosen One shall come, born of no father, and through him will ultimate balance in the Force be restored. ~ Claudia Gray

I would love you in any shape, in any world, with any past. Never doubt that. - ~ Claudia Gray

Excuse me, but who I love isn't something you get to prescribe for me, like a doctor with some pills. ~ Claudia Gray

For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what 'my own good' truly was ~ Claudia Gray

We are all the center of our own universe, and all of us in someone else's orbit. It's a paradox, but sometimes paradoxes are where the truth begins. ~ Claudia Gray

Maybe Ciena was right. Maybe the Force was bringing them together, over and over. If so, Thane decided, the Force had a sick sense of humor. ~ Claudia Gray

...It would mean the darkness would be just as strong as the light. So it doesn't matter what we do, because in the end, hey, it's a tie! It doesn't matter which side we choose."
...
"It matters," Qui-Gon said quietly. "It matters which side we choose. Even if there will never be more light than darkness. Even if there can be no more joy in the galaxy than there is pain. For every action we undertake, for every word we speak, for every life we touch - it matters. I don't turn toward the light because it means someday I'll 'win' some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is the light. ~ Claudia Gray

Because each version of us is a unique individual who deserves to be recognized for themselves -- but something deep down inside is always the same. ~ 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

Then Paul bends over me, cradles me in his arms, as if he's sheltering me from the whole world. I close my eyes, and despite everything, I think I've never felt so safe. ~ Claudia Gray

The universe is in fact a multiverse. ~ Claudia Gray

A ceremony honoring the memory of BAIL ORGANA has drawn the Senate together in rare harmony. It is a day of celebration, but even now, the divisions among the worlds of the galaxy are growing wider ... . ~ Claudia Gray

° "Not a ghost, but an angel. ~ 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

Although Ciena would have liked to have gone down to Cloud City, perhaps to meet Jude's parents, she remained aboard the Executor. ~ 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

One of the local children had begun jeering at the Bodach'i. "That's what you get! You think you can push the Emperor around? Showed you!" One of the stormtroopers nodded in approval, then patted the child's head. That boy could be no more than seven or eight years old - the age Thane was when he'd decided to join the Imperial fleet. That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them. Each generation provided the next level of abuse. We're teaching children to approve of slavery. We're teaching them cruelty is a virtue. But ~ Claudia Gray

He wasn't wrong to fall for me. Just in the wrong universe. ~ Claudia Gray

Theo's already on his way. Paul might bee too, but communications have been down so long, I don't know."
"Heading out here with a storm like this coming in? That's madness." Dad sighs. "Then again, jumping through dimensions to chase a dead man is madness too. I had long suspected their lunacy but this confirmation is nonetheless disquieting."
"See? Everything's going to be fine. ~ Claudia Gray

Because I want you to be happy. With or without me, whatever it takes." Theo sighs. "That's the difference between wanting someone and loving them. ~ Claudia Gray

We learn about people by observing their choices. ~ Claudia Gray

Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. "I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn't spend 'em too cheap." Ranulf nodded. "That is the manner in which I roll. ~ Claudia Gray

I'm not dating Balthazar. I'm pretend dating him. Which involves some not pretend hand-holding. And maybe some not pretend kissing. But it's all actually pretend, see?
I groaned. My explanations were making my head hurt already. ~ Claudia Gray

Leia experienced the vaguely guilty sensation that surfaced every time she realized that droid personalities were more than programmed conversational quirks. A computer core could be lonely. C-3PO could take pity on it. ~ Claudia Gray

When the people with authority don't have to answer to citizens of the galaxy, the result is tyranny. ~ Claudia Gray

The dangers we have to fear aren't the ones we're used to. They're coming from directions we never imagined. ~ Claudia Gray

It isn't as hard to leave life behind, he thinks, once you've had a life worth living. ~ Claudia Gray

I hope to have told you all this myself," Bail Organa's voice said. "I hope we have enjoyed many more happy years as a family, that we have seen the Empire fall, and that we have gone forth together to find General Kenobi and your brother. If so, this recording can serve only one purpose. You must be listening after my death, so let this be my chance to say once again how much I love you. No other daughter could ever have brought me more joy." Tears welled in Leia's eyes, but she fought them back. If she began to sob, she wouldn't be able to hear her father's voice any longer. He concluded, "Please know that my love for you, and your mother's love, endures long past our deaths. We are forever with you, Leia. In your brightest triumphs and your darkest troubles, always know that we are by your side." She ~ Claudia Gray

You paint the truth, Marguerite. ~ Claudia Gray

The multiverse is infinite. So, yeah, we go through some terrible things together, and I've seen versions of you who are darker, and damaged, and I don't care. I want you even when you're broken. I want you no matter what. ~ Claudia Gray

That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on. ~ Claudia Gray

Leia Organa is not a child." Her voice carried through the room, commanding the kind of attention that would halt a more crowded gathering than this one. She slowly stood. "Leia has had her Day of Demand. She's growing into an adult -- a representative of the next generation. And make no mistake, they're the generation who will bear the brunt of what's to come. They're the ones who'll do most of the fighting and most of the dying. They're the ones who will do most of the rebuilding afterward, if we are so fortunate as to see an 'after.' We need the young with us. Without them, this war is lost before it's begun. ~ Claudia Gray

I thought you were opposed to engaging in prostitution to fund our travels."
"That's not what I - is prostitution your answer for everything? ~ Claudia Gray

Back when I was five, I thought my mom was being mean to me, so I decided to run away. Carried my slingshot with me because I was a big strong man, you see. Could take care of myself. I believe I also took a flashlight and a package of Oreos."
Despite my embarrassement, I couldn't help smiling. "I think you packed better than I did."
I swaggered out of the house where we were staying and took myself all the way to ... the far corner of the backyard. There I made my stand. Stayed out there all day, until it started to reain. I hadn't thought about taking an umbrella."
The best laid plans." I sighed.
I know. It's tragic. I cam back in, all wet and my stomach aching from eating about twenty Oreo, and my mom
who is a smart lady even is she drives me nuts
well, she acted like nothing happened." Lucas shrugged. ~ Claudia Gray

There was a limit to the amount of stupidity Leia could tolerate in one day, and she'd just hit it. ~ Claudia Gray

I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It's just an old spirit stuck between the worlds, right? What's to be scared of?""
~Vic ~ Claudia Gray

And I love you. In any world, any universe. ~ Claudia Gray

He'd protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price. ~ Claudia Gray

I'm going to marry Prince William! I'll get all Kate Middleton's cute coats! ~ Claudia Gray

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do. ~ Claudia Gray

You'll live forever, and being remembered by you is the only immortality I'll ever need. If I only live on as a part of yo- Bianca, that's my idea of heaven ~ Claudia Gray

Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive. ~ Claudia Gray

Also, he was young enough that she didn't have to worry about any misunderstandings of the romantic variety - but not so young that she had to feel guilty about appreciating the view. ~ Claudia Gray

Are you calling me a weirdo?
Highest honor I can bestow. ~ Claudia Gray

This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans. ~ Claudia Gray

I can hardly bear to look at him; it's like staring into the brightness and warmth of the sun, knowing that it's burning you while understanding that it makes your whole life possible. ~ Claudia Gray

Ten thousand skies, and a million worlds, and it still wouldn't be enough for me to share with you. Nothing less than forever will do. ~ Claudia Gray

The Death Star was gone. Had the Empire itself fallen with it? ~ Claudia Gray

What began as hunger simply to leave Jelucan had ripened into genuine wanderlust. ~ Claudia Gray

What use are ideals if we cannot fit them to the universe as we find it?" Qui-Gon had once asked him. "If our beliefs tell us one thing, and the needs of real people tell us another, can there be any question of which we should listen to?" This all sounded very lofty when Qui-Gon said it, but in actuality it meant things like, It's okay to "borrow" a spaceship from criminals if you really need it, or If I can win this tribe's independence in a game of chance, then it's worth selling my Padawan's best robe for chips to get into the game. ~ Claudia Gray

Is this what it means to die? Lucas thought. Because I'm not scared of it anymore. Not if it means I finally get this close to you. ~ Claudia Gray

Josie shattered into many pieces, too fragmentary to collect. But it wouldn't be impossible to travel to each of those worlds. After all, you needn't stay long." Mom puts a hand on my shoulder, a touch meant to soothe that instead makes my skin crawl. "You won't be killing anyone, Marguerite. The entire dimension will simply be erased from the multiverse. No one will feel any pain. No one will even know." When a dimension died, it would take its entire history with it. The people within it wouldn't die; they would never have been born. ~ Claudia Gray

Bianca Olivier- Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face?
Lucas Ross- How is a hamburger supposed to punch me in the face? ~ Claudia Gray

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

Everything he's done, everything he gave up and risked for me: Paul did all that without the slightest idea of being loved in return. ~ Claudia Gray

The most powerful presence in the room is his absence. ~ Claudia Gray

Everyone is lonely," Ranulf said, but he smiled. "We have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about past or future. Happiness is in the now."
Raquel laughed. "Vic has totally brainwashed you. ~ Claudia Gray

Sometimes we're loyal to more than one thing. When there's a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor. ~ Claudia Gray

Bath," I said, relishing the short A of my new accent. "Baaaath. Privacy. Aluminum. Laboratory. Tomato. Schhhhhedule."
The giggles come over me, and I stop right there, hand against my chest, trying to catch my breath. I know I'm laughing mostly because I refuse to give in and start crying. The grief for my father has nowhere to go and is twisting every other mood I have into knots. And ... tomahhhhto. That's hilarious. ~ Claudia Gray

But few sabacc players had learned the game from Han Solo and Lando Calrissian. ~ Claudia Gray

You could stay in my bed."
That conjured up all kinds of dangerous thoughts. Stop it, he told himself. Her teddy bear is in this room. ~ Claudia Gray

Look through my eyes... ~ Claudia Gray

Math doesn't lie. Our emotions do. ~ Claudia Gray

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

I didn't tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in
after the last time you and I saw each other. But he won't give us away,
Lucas. He's even willing to help us see each other, as long as we help
him with Charity."
"What, like, a fund-raiser or something?"
I'd forgotten he didn't know her name. "The vampire girl in Amherst."
"Wait - Charity? That's her name? You were able to figure out who
she is." He smiled so proudly that all the tension of the moment instantly
melted. "I fell in love with a genius. ~ Claudia Gray

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He'd never guessed that I was the dangerous one. ~ Claudia Gray

If the Empire would destroy a world as important and prosperous as Alderaan ... no place in the galaxy was safe. ~ 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

Is he right, about my creating excitement where I can? Even being melodramatic?

You went on a half-baked vengeance quest against Paul using a totally untested experimental device, I think. He might possibly have a point. ~ Claudia Gray

Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief. ~ Claudia Gray

Maybe it's not a love the way a human would feel it," he says. "Maybe it's only a... simulation of love, a close analogue. But I feel it with all the strength I have to feel anything. Over the past weeks I've come to - to listen for your voice, because I hope to hear it. I pay attention to irrelevant details of your mannerisms and appearance because I find them pleasing. I've begun to understand how you think and what you want. That means I can see through your eyes, too, instead of only my own, and it's as if the entire universe expanded, grew larger and more beautiful." He pauses. "You even make me think in metaphors. ~ Claudia Gray

In every universe, everywhere, people just plain screw up. ~ Claudia Gray

I think you feel more deeply than most people ever do; you just don't know how to show it. You always feel - out of step. You're not like the people around you, and they know it as well as you do. And you think it's because something's wrong with you, so you retreat deeper into the background. That just means people don't get to know the real you.
You're lonely. You've been lonely so long I think you've forgotten there's any other way to be. ~ Claudia Gray

Mathematical parallels. It's plausible to hypothesize that these patterns will be reflected in events and people in each dimension. That people who have met in one quantum reality will be likely to meet in another. Certain things that happen will happen over and over, in different ways, but more often than you could explain by chance alone. ~ 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

Songs and movies tell us that when you meet the one you love, the planet stops spinning, the clouds open up, and your heart begins to sing. Reality is messier than that. The truth is, we meet new people all the time, but we can never tell exactly what they might mean to us. You never know who you'll forget, or who you'll need forever. ~ Claudia Gray

The people who get their portraits painted-rich people-they want to look good. ~ Claudia Gray

Your soul is bigger than your programming. ~ Claudia Gray

A lot of people say stuff like that about tragedies only because they think they're supposed to, ~ Claudia Gray

You paint the truth, Marguerite, I don't think you could work any other way. ~ Claudia Gray

Mathematics or Fate: Whatever that force is that keeps bringing us together in world after world, it's powerful. Undeniable. But I still don't know whether that force means my salvation or my destruction ~ Claudia Gray

About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us. ~ Claudia Gray

I've been thinking." She pretended to mull the question over. "What if I decided to go flying around the galaxy with some scoundrel?" Han raised his eyebrows and pointed toward his own chest. Leia laughed. "Unless you had another scoundrel in mind." "Hey, hey. I'm the only scoundrel up for the job." He shook his head in - surprise? Disbelief? Leia wasn't sure. What mattered most was the warmth in his smile. Even if Han wasn't convinced she intended to do this, he liked the idea. Down ~ Claudia Gray

How did you learn all this?"
Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays holed up with her art projects, and Ranulf's off studying his Norse myths again, i do something else. Something crazy. Something strange. I call it 'talking to other people.' Through this miraculous process, I am sometimes able to learn facts about two or three other human beings in a single day. Scientists plan to study my method."
~Vic ~ Claudia Gray

I wonder how much of the rest of his clothes I could convince him to take off, then wonder where that thought came from.
Well I guess I know. ~ Claudia Gray

That's right", she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. "You weren't with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror."
"You saw your parents at the best," Mom murmurs, before Dad sweeps her into another kiss.
"Go ahead," Josie calls. "Mate in public. Tonight we won't even mind. You deserve to break a few decency laws. ~ Claudia Gray

Every moment, every day, we are all making something -- whether it's science or art, a relationship to a destiny -- building it choice by choice, moment by moment. ~ Claudia Gray

I realize that this is what being a parent means - facing the most horrible thing that could ever happen to you and yet thinking only of how it will hurt your child. ~ Claudia Gray