Top 300 Claudia Gray Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Now I know grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within. Something has been torn out from inside me that will never be filled up, not ever, no matter how long I live. They say “time heals,” but even now, less than a week after my father’s death, I know that’s a lie. What people really mean is that eventually you’ll get used to the pain. You’ll forget who you were without it; you’ll forget what you looked like without your scars.”

— Claudia Gray

52. “Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.”

— Claudia Gray

53. “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.”

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54. “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.”

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55. “Believing in something greater than ourselves isn’t crazy. It’s proof we’re sane. Look how vast the galaxy is. Don’t you have to admit we can’t be the greatest power within it?”

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56. “I’ve always thought real love could only come later. After you both know each other, trust each other. After days, or weeks, or months spent together – learning to understand everything that isn’t spoken out loud.”

— Claudia Gray

57. “We are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?”

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58. “Stop measuring yourself against us. It’s not the right scale. You have your own gifts, your own talents. Show the world everything you’re capable of, Marguerite. You don’t even see how amazing you are.”

— Claudia Gray

59. “I’ve never understood how anybody could be in love with two people at the same time. Your heart can only sing one song at a time.”

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60. “The memory stings – and I hate that, I hate how all the good memories have turned into things that hurt – but I need the pain.”

— Claudia Gray

61. “I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire’s presence in a cold room.”

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62. “If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened – even if you’d already lost each other forever – you owed each other the truth.”

— Claudia Gray

63. “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

64. “That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.”

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65. “We killed billions of people. We slaughtered billions, and afterward we were expected to applaud.”

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66. “Maybe a soul can be broken, just like a destiny.”

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67. “My love of creativity is one of my constants, a pole star amid the many constellations of possibilities and personalities that make up all the people I could be.”

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68. “When we’re in pain, people are too quick to say, Get over it, move on, it’s not that bad. But we don’t get over grief by denying it. We have to feel it. We have to give it its due. Somethings that means doing the exact opposite of “moving on.” We have to dive down to the very depths of our sorrow, relive every terrible moment, and endure the torture of asking what could have been – and what will now be. We have to bleed out before our hearts can start beating again.”

— Claudia Gray

69. “I see... the way you’re always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you’re older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you’re always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It’s all in the eyes.”

— Claudia Gray

70. “He deserves better than this. But “deserves” doesn’t have a lot to do with falling in love.”

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71. “We fooled ourselves into thinking happiness was a gift we would be given time and time again. It’s so much scarier to admit that our lives are in our own flawed, fallible hands. Our futures are not kept safe for us in de cradle of fate. We have to hack them out of stone, dig them out of mud, and build them one messy, imperfect day at a time.”

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72. “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

73. “Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won’t have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you’ll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.”

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74. “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.”

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75. “The words Death Star were harder for him to say now that the death was real.”

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76. “Everyone was supposed to love Emperor Palpatine. Everyone said he was the bravest, most intelligent person in the galaxy, that he was the one who had brought order after the chaos of the Clone Wars.”

— Claudia Gray

77. “All I need here is you.”

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78. “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.”

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79. “The problem here is that you’re questioning yourself. Self-doubt will cripple you more surely than fear ever could... if you fall apart after every major engagement, you’ll self-destruct before long.”

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80. “Abel is of course aware that Noemi doesn’t love him, at least not in the same way he loves her. This, too, is irrelevant. As he understands it, love is not transactional; it is a thing freely given. The joy is in the giving.”

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81. “My growth is stunted already. If I’m stuck being short, I may as well have the caf.”

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82. “But, Princess Leia!” C-3PO’s voice rose in alarm. “You can’t! The mission sounds terribly dangerous.” “Threepio, in the quarter century you’ve served me, have you ever known me to run away from danger?” “Well. No.” The droid considered this a moment before adding hopefully, “Yet you might eventually develop a stronger instinct for survival.” Leia couldn’t help laughing. “Don’t count on it.”

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83. “I meant that you shouldn’t feel ashamed of not knowing a subject. We can’t begin to learn until we admit how much we don’t know.”

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84. “But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.”

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85. “Great evil can only be fought by the strong. People need spiritual fuel as much as they need food, water, and air. Happiness, love, joy, hope – these are the emotions that give us the strength to do what we need to do.”

— Claudia Gray

86. “I’d rather burn in a better kind of flame.”

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87. “It’s disturbing to be known so well by someone who means you harm.”

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88. “They say “time heals,” but even now, I know that’s a lie. What people really mean is that eventually you’ll get used to the pain. You’ll forget who you were without it; you’ll forget what you looked like without your scars.”

— Claudia Gray

89. “If you know you’re loved, deep down know it, something deep and precious inside you will always be safe. If you don’t have that love – or don’t know that you do – then you’re vulnerable. Unshielded. Exposed to all the hardness and horror of the world.”

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90. “That’s right. So it looks as though the same groups of people find each other, over and over. Not invariably, but far more than mere chance would suggest.”

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91. “Sometimes I look at you, and I think – if I didn’t know we shared a destiny, if I hadn’t seen the proof for myself, I’d never believe this was real. That you could love me as much as I love you.”

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92. “Apparently, every once in a while, leadership meant abandoning decorum and yelling as loud as you could.”

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93. “Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.”

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94. “The first time I traveled to another dimension, I intend to take a life. Now I’m trying to save one.”

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95. “Sometimes paradoxes are where truth begins.”

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96. “What most people call instinct in people is really the interpretation of small subconscious cues.”

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97. “Obi-Wan had given up trying to come up with any coherent thoughts. It made more sense to just yell, “AAAAAAUUUGHHHH!”

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98. “Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.”

— Claudia Gray

99. “My parents would call it genetics. To me it seems like alchemy – the luminous space between science and magic.”

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100. “The Death Star was gone. Had the Empire itself fallen with it?”

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