Top 100 Claire Legrand Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

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

— Claire Legrand

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

58. “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

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

— 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. “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

63. “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

64. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

66. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

68. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

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

— Claire Legrand

71. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

73. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

75. “I am a force unconquerable.”

— Claire Legrand

76. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

78. “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

79. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

81. “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

82. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

88. “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

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

— Claire Legrand

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

— Claire Legrand

91. “It would be easier, he knew, if he had never loved her. And yet, given the choice, he would do it again, even knowing what was to come. He would lose her a thousand times over if it meant he would first have the chance to love her.”

— Claire Legrand

92. “You were everything that night. You were the entire world, and I was safe inside you. For once, I felt safe.”

— Claire Legrand

93. “My, my,” he murmured, his blue eyes flashing with unbridled glee. “Never have I seen the Dread struck so speechless. You know how to make a man feel good, I must say.”

— Claire Legrand

94. “That in itself is scary, but I have learned it is important to tell the truth, even if it is frightening.”

— Claire Legrand

95. “He smelled of salt and smoke, murmured her name until she wore the syllables on her skin.”

— Claire Legrand

96. “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

97. “We are all monsters, full of perversities and violence. At least you and I accept this and have the power and intelligence to do something.”

— Claire Legrand

98. “Come, Simon!” Corien howled, jubilant. “How long can you stand to watch her like this? Hours? Days? Weeks? I am ageless. I am infinite. I can burn her until the world falls apart around us!”

— Claire Legrand

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

— Claire Legrand

100. “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