Top 100 Claire Legrand Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane.”

— Claire Legrand

3. “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

4. “We are the light against the darkness, and we must continue to burn brightly, so others may find their way out.”

— Claire Legrand

5. “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

6. “If you live, then I live. If you die, then I am no longer.”

— Claire Legrand

7. “Like the sun and the moon. Like day and night. I am the shore and you are the sea, my darling. The wild, wild sea – ever-changing and mighty. I need your passion, and you need something steady to come home to. An anchor, warm and sunlit.”

— Claire Legrand

8. “How can the world look so perfect when I feel so broken?”

— Claire Legrand

9. “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

10. “We all have darkness inside us, Rielle,” he said, his voice rough. “That is what it means to be human.”

— Claire Legrand

11. “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

12. “I hear whispers, bare feet slapping on wood floors, bodies moving throughout the house... The Harts are a storm and I am its bewildered eye.”

— Claire Legrand

13. “She was night itself reborn on earth, a queen swathed in shadows.”

— Claire Legrand

14. “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

15. “Dread,” he murmured, his breath caressing her cheek, “is only a feeling, easily squashed. But wolves, my dear, have teeth.”

— Claire Legrand

16. “People like us don’t fight for our own hope,” he said quietly. “We fight for everyone else’s.”

— Claire Legrand

17. “We are more than what’s been done to us. We are more then our anger.”

— Claire Legrand

18. “We all carry secrets’ said the fox. ‘The more we ignore them, the heavier they become.”

— Claire Legrand

19. “We fight until we can’t find anymore, and then we die, and none of it will matter anyway.”

— Claire Legrand

20. “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

21. “Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.”

— Claire Legrand

22. “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

23. “Some say the Queen was frightened in her last moments. But I like to think that she was angry.”

— Claire Legrand

24. “It is a great responsibility, to be trusted with another’s heart.”

— Claire Legrand

25. “Even after everything else has gone wrong, pancakes still smell the same.”

— Claire Legrand

26. “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

27. “Vivimos en un mundo donde las cosas buenas mueren y donde matan a aquellos que se rebelan porque son lo bastante ingenuos como para esperar algo mejor.”

— Claire Legrand

28. “You are the light of the world, and you will guide us home.”

— Claire Legrand

29. “It’s unfair that you should have to bear so much.” “Me? Or women?”

— Claire Legrand

30. “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

31. “The mind is fragile, and time is pitiless.”

— Claire Legrand

32. “She was so sick of all the Latin. The Latin was creepy. It was a language of the dead.”

— Claire Legrand

33. “It was important to dream. Dreaming tells us who we are and scrubs away the bad days.”

— Claire Legrand

34. “Screw that book,” said Val. “It was written by men.” She held out her free hand to Marion. “We’re rewriting it.”

— Claire Legrand

35. “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

36. “Sometimes words are more powerful than magic, for they can remind us how strong we truly are.”

— Claire Legrand

37. “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

38. “Victoria hated messes. She hated distractions. Friends were the worst distraction of all.”

— Claire Legrand

39. “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

40. “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

41. “As I understand it,” Ludivine replied wryly, “kissing involves not just one person, but two. If there is blame to be placed, it isn’t only for you to bear.”

— Claire Legrand

42. “Or maybe, Zoey thought darkly, legends about monsters weren’t so funny when girls were actually dying.”

— Claire Legrand

43. “Zoey aimed for wry nonchalance, to cover up how obviously chalant she was. Was that a thing?”

— Claire Legrand

44. “You’re a marvelous witch, Quix, do you know that? Odd, but marvelous.”

— Claire Legrand

45. “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

46. “There is too much hate in the world already. Why direct more of it at yourself?”

— Claire Legrand

47. “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

48. “You know nothing about my grief”, said Anastasia. ” So speak nothing of it.”

— Claire Legrand

49. “I’ve looked at you so many times that I see you when I close my eyes. I can’t shake you.”

— Claire Legrand

50. “How wonderful a thing it is, to understand someone else without even trying to.”

— Claire Legrand