Top 100 Claire Legrand Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I want to tell them about the stones piling up in my stomach. That my thoughts are tangled and wordless.”

— Claire Legrand

52. “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

53. “I don’t love you,” she whispered, the lie bitter on her tongue. “I refuse to love you.” “I know,” he said and held her to him, stroking her hair. “I don’t love you either.”

— Claire Legrand

54. “Dreams – even ones you were good at – weren’t for hiding yourself in.”

— Claire Legrand

55. “He was the steady voice in her mind that spoke to her when she didn’t feel steady at all.”

— Claire Legrand

56. “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

57. “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

58. “Here, my lady. I’ll help you back to bed and send for some tea. And a cinnamon cake, perhaps?” Rielle leaned heavily into Evyline’s broad body. “Perhaps three cakes would do the trick.” “Three cakes are, generally speaking, much more effective than one, my lady.” Rielle’s smile was faint and brought prickling tears to her eyes. “Bless you, Evyline. I’ve taught you well.”

— Claire Legrand

59. “Sometimes,′ Anastazia said, ’it isn’t about being the most powerful person or the person who has the most knowledge. It isn’t about being the oldest person, or the strongest person, or the person who makes all the right decisions. Sometimes it’s about being the person who decides to stand up and fight.”

— Claire Legrand

60. “Imagine, if you will, a sponge – ” “Animal, cleaning, or Bob?” Zoey interrupted. Her father gave her a Look. Marion exhaled a soft laugh.”

— Claire Legrand

61. “She curtsied before the king, the shadow of Saint Katell falling like a sword across her neck.”

— Claire Legrand

62. “Hope was a choice that only the resolute of heart chose to make.”

— Claire Legrand

63. “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

64. “Hope, she thought, breathing with the tide, was a choice that only those with resolute hearts dared to make.”

— Claire Legrand

65. “I am myself. My mind is my own. And I am not afraid.”

— Claire Legrand

66. “We are all of us dark creatures, but if we linger in those shadows, we’ll be lost. Instead we must seek the light when we can.”

— Claire Legrand

67. “It’s Grandma, in the farthest stall. Grandma, getting sick. It goes on for way too long, and I make myself listen instead of covering my ears, because if she has to feel that, then someone else should have to hear it. It is too lonely otherwise.”

— Claire Legrand

68. “I know you grieve what you have lost. I grieve as well. I think we will grieve for the rest of our lives. With every step we take away from our home, grief braids itself more tightly into the fabric of our deepest selves. And just as I cannot pry my grief from me, discard it, and move on without it, I also cannot let go of my hope.”

— Claire Legrand

69. “It would not have been fear that took me from you, if I had decided to leave. It would have been my own self, my own will. And you denied me that choice.”

— Claire Legrand

70. “I have loved you. I have trusted you. Part of me will always belong to you. But not all of me. You saw that I was afraid and worked to keep me that way. You saw that I was lonely and reminded me of it every time I thought of leaving you.”

— Claire Legrand

71. “I know what it feels like to know you live because others have died, how the grief sits in you like a stone you cannot dislodge. I have to believe that if they could see us now, they would be proud of our fight and would not regret their part in it.”

— Claire Legrand

72. “Past the grief, there is light still, even if only in memory. Tell me about that light.”

— Claire Legrand

73. “Someone who hates me as he does deserves no piece of my heart.”

— Claire Legrand

74. “In that moment, she was not a rock but a girl. Not a fatherless, sisterless daughter, but a living, breathing, selfish creature who wanted. Who craved.”

— Claire Legrand

75. “A baby step. 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. And hopefully, you have people beside you to help you up when you need it. That’s where family comes in.”

— Claire Legrand

76. “My belief is my hope, and hope is the light that shines even on the darkest night.”

— Claire Legrand

77. “I know every corner of you savage heart, your capacity for cruelty, your caprice, and yet I love you still. I would have you right here if you would let me. Fear you? I exalt you. Remember what I told you?” He laughed, tightening his grip on her hair. “You could burn me a thousand times, and I would still want you for my own.”

— Claire Legrand

78. “You are the Lightbringer, and our world is growing dark.”

— Claire Legrand

79. “Love is the one constant force that no violence or despair can diminish. We must hold onto the light of this truth, even when the world grows dark. Especially then.”

— Claire Legrand

80. “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

81. “Only fools try to run away from fear,” called the snake. “What you must do is learn to walk alongside it.”

— Claire Legrand

82. “I know you grieve. I know your mind has turned against you, and I understand why. But many of us are grieving, and there’s more sorrow on the horizon, so I need you-we need you-to pick up the pieces of yourself and fight.”

— Claire Legrand

83. “Have you always been this unspeakably irritating?” “Has your face always looked so temptingly carvable?”

— Claire Legrand

84. “You touch me and I burn.”

— Claire Legrand

85. “She felt, simply, like a girl lucky enough to know what it was to be loved, and she clung to that feeling as fiercely as she could.”

— Claire Legrand

86. “You will show the people who would have caged you forever how mistaken they were to think they ever could.”

— Claire Legrand

87. “Perhaps witches were simply born funny looking and different. And no one understood them. And so they had been deemed evil. It did not seem particularly fair.”

— Claire Legrand

88. “You’ve surpassed us, that’s true, and some people are afraid and will continue to be. Some will hate you. That’s true too. But most will love you, even those who sometimes fear you.”

— Claire Legrand

89. “I am a force unconquerable.”

— Claire Legrand

90. “A monster who kissed her one moment and crafted abominations the next. And she herself, the most monstrous of them all.”

— Claire Legrand

91. “If there is a wickedness inside of you, Rielle,” Audric said hoarsely, his lips in her hair, “then I shall treasure it as I do every other part of you.”

— Claire Legrand

92. “The tender weight of his palms sent a fierce bite of joy up her arms. Her instincts were at war. To leave him aching, to lean into his warmth. Two paths and no answers.”

— Claire Legrand

93. “And over it stood Simon in imperial black, his scarred face streaked with blood and grime. His expression was furious. A dark cloak lined with crimson fell to his knees, and across his torso cut a red sash like a bloody smile.”

— Claire Legrand

94. “How utterly strange to see pieces of her own face on this stranger. To know that this person she had never seen before had given her life. Trying to wrap her mind around the concept felt like trying to circle her arms around the entire world.”

— Claire Legrand

95. “Jack thinks it is so easy to do just things: to steal your neighbors’ property so they will chase you. To hug your friend because you missed her.”

— Claire Legrand

96. “Just as I cannot pry my grief from me, discard it, and move on without it, I also cannot let go of my hope.”

— Claire Legrand

97. “Even monsters were not always without mercy.”

— Claire Legrand

98. “Bring me composers who write their helpless mortality into every melody, singers with storms of grief in their lungs. Bring me people who wish they could stop listening to the music boiling in their blood but cannot, so they tear it from their bodies the only way they know how – through air and strings and drum and pen.”

— Claire Legrand

99. “Forcing Rielle to choose between good or bad, light or blood, is folly, he said. It will be our undoing.”

— Claire Legrand

100. “It always hurts a little, to leave the darkness, for in shadows lies a certain safety.”

— Claire Legrand