Top 300 Claudia Gray Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You’re strong enough to stand up to anyone. Smart enough to do anything you want. Don’t sell yourself short; don’t be afraid of what your new life is going to offer. Because I know – if there’s any justice in this world, good things are going to come to you. Better things than you ever dreamed.”

— Claudia Gray

2. “Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I’m not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.”

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3. “The most beautiful form of mastery is the art of letting go.”

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4. “That means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.”

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5. “Good intentions aren’t enough. They’re not meaningless, but – that’s where we have to start. Not where we end.”

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6. “Math doesn’t lie. Our emotions do.”

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7. “You gotta learn how to take a compliment, because I’m not going to stop making them.”

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8. “I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.”

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9. “Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window.”

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10. “You’ll live forever, and being remembered by is the only immortality I’ll ever need. If i only live on as a part of you – Bianca, that’s my idea of Heaven.”

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11. “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.”

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12. “It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents – the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d always told all my secrets to, the ones I’d wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldn’t imagine why. It couldn’t possibly matter why.”

— Claudia Gray

13. “Authority can be given, but leadership must be earned.”

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14. “My parents. My friends. My world. These are the things the Empire can never take away.”

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15. “The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.”

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16. “Those moments make me feel like I’m melting – like we’re fusing together, ceasing to be two separate people, turning into one.”

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17. “And I love you. In any world, any universe.”

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18. “Good Soldiers don’t sacrifice the cause for love – Lucas If the cause isn’t love then it isn’t worth the sacrifice.”

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19. “When you think you’ve finally figured things out? That’s usually when your plans go to hell.”

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20. “Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.”

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21. “The library would’ve cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.”

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22. “Every single world we’ve visited isn’t just random – it’s the result of countless choices, all of them combining to create a new reality. You and I have been given an infinity of chances, and that’s so much more than mot people will ever get – but in the end we get to live in only one world, and that’s the world we make. I want us to create that world together.”

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23. “Me gustan los hombres que conocen el valor de las palabras y no las derrochan.”

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24. “Artificial lights gleaming brilliantly in the dark, all along ever street, because Earth residents seem to consider day and night as mere states of mind.”

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25. “Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.”

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26. “People get stupid when they’re in love; people want what they can’t have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “No matter what happens, no matter what becomes of you, if you are here, I’ll always be with you.”

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29. “Los recuerdos duelen, y lo odio, odio que los buenos recuerdos se hayan convertido en algo doloroso.”

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30. “The sun is setting on the New Republic,” Leia said. “It’s time for the Resistance to rise.”

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31. “What had seemed like love was betrayal.”

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32. “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.” If a guy tells you, I have trouble trusting women, you don’t assume he’s just had bad experiences and you can fix things by being the nicest, best woman of all time. You go, Thanks for the warning. Good luck with that. Nice knowing you. Then you walk away without ever looking back. And if someone says they’re going to hurt you? Don’t stick around and wait for them to prove it.”

— Claudia Gray

33. “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.”

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34. “I would love you in any shape, in any world, with any past. Never doubt that.”

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35. “All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I’ve got to figure out how that happened.”

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36. “Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face? – How is a hamburger supposed to punch me in the face? Just say that it can. Would you bother? Or would you eat something else?”

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37. “The most powerful presence in the room is his absence.”

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38. “But grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.”

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39. “Nobody learns anything new without failing the first few times they try. You have to face that and figure out how to get back up again. That means learning how to fail is the most important lesson of all.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “We can’t begin to learn until we admit how much we don’t know.”

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42. “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

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43. “Sometimes we’re loyal to more than one thing. When there’s a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “The Empire might have demanded that they sacrifice their souls, but at one point, the majority of those people had been no worse than any others. All that was good in them had been lost to the Empire and to the war; surely that was worth grieving for.”

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46. “When I traveled, and got lost within the other Paul Markovs – I always sensed the differences. The ways they thought and spoke and dreamed that I never would, or could.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “Alderaan had any number of traditions about braids, about who wore them, and when, and why. The customs varied from continent to continent, age to age. But always, one of the most profoundly intimate acts was to allow someone else to take the braids down.”

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49. “He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.”

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50. “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.”

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