Top 300 Claudia Gray Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Please stop sniffing the robot boy, Noemi tells herself, jerking out of the trance.”

— Claudia Gray

102. “And if someone says they’re going to hurt you? Don’t stick around and wait for them to prove it.”

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103. “The truth is, we meet new people all the time, but we can never tell exactly what they might mean to us. You never know who you’ll forget, or who you’ll need forever.”

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104. “Leia had watched as Luke slowly overcame his grief for Obi-Wan Kenobi and his aunt and uncle, while learning about gunnery, ship repair, and countless other things from Han. The sarcasm and wit Han used disguised his concern from Luke, and even Leia took a while to realize that Han was looking out for her, too.”

— Claudia Gray

105. “I wish I could put it back together again. Not as it was before- that is of course impossible. But enough to see it, truly see it, as it once was.”

— Claudia Gray

106. “I love you completely, don’t you see? I even want the worst of you because it it’s still a part of you.”

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107. “You are not my Marguerite. And yet – you are. This essential thing you share – your soul – that is what I love.” Paul’s smile is sadder and more beautiful than I have ever seen before. “I would love you in any shape, in any world, with any past. Never doubt that.”

— Claudia Gray

108. “Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you’ll get out again.”

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109. “Look through my eyes...”

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110. “I love you completely, don’t you see? I even want the worst part of you because it’s still a part of you.” I press one hand against his chest, as if it could send everything I feel straight into his heart. “I want you when it’s crazy, when it’s frightening, when it’s impossible, because there’s nothing within you that could hurt me half as much as not having you.”

— Claudia Gray

111. “Songs and movies tell us that when you meet the one you love, the planet stops spinning, the clouds open up, and your heart begins to sing. Reality is messier than that. The truth is, we meet new people all the time, but we can never tell exactly what they might mean to us. You never know who you’ll forget, or who you’ll need forever.”

— Claudia Gray

112. “You paint the truth, Marguerite.”

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113. “It wouldn’t matter if you visited a million worlds. You never know everything about another person – not even someone you love. You can’t, and you wouldn’t want to.” To my surprise, Paul smiles, his expression as warm and adoring as it was that night in Chinatown. “You have to love the mystery. You have to take a chance.”

— Claudia Gray

114. “Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.”

— Claudia Gray

115. “Because I want you to be happy. With or without me, whatever it takes.” Theo sighs. “That’s the difference between wanting someone and loving them.”

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116. “Their intentions may be good, but their judgment isn’t.”

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117. “That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.”

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118. “People can forgive anything except being proved wrong.”

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119. “I’ve only ever known one person who could tolerate this who wasn’t a native of Pamarthe.” “Captain Solo?” Joph said, without lifting his face from the table. Leia shook her head. “Chewbacca – a Wookiee friend of ours. Han would never touch this.”

— Claudia Gray

120. “I was the only one who knew the whole truth about Lucas – who he really was, and what we felt for each other. The truth was all I had left of him, and I would have to carry it alone.”

— Claudia Gray

121. “I realize that this is what being a parent means – facing the most horrible thing that could ever happen to you and yet thinking only of how it will hurt your child.”

— Claudia Gray

122. “Joy drives out fear.”

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123. “Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. “I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn’t spend ’em too cheap.” Ranulf nodded. “That is the manner in which I roll.”

— Claudia Gray

124. “Science is the study of the entire material universe. Therefore everything is science – whether you see it or not.”

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125. “But few sabacc players had learned the game from Han Solo and Lando Calrissian.”

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126. “Confirmed. Complete negative on Imperial activity,′ Yendor replied. ‘Unless the Empire’s drafting small woodland creatures all of a sudden.”

— Claudia Gray

127. “For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn’t had the slightest clue what ‘my own good’ truly was.”

— Claudia Gray

128. “We’re brought together by a power greater than either of us. Something bigger than our own world.”

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129. “I told myself it didn’t matter if I never got to be with you. It was enough just to love you.”

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130. “Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could – to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.”

— Claudia Gray

131. “Our destiny isn’t some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.”

— Claudia Gray

132. “Something in me belongs to him now, and I feel, I know, that he belongs to me.”

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133. “Free intoxicants are among those gifts most welcomed by sentient biological life-forms,” the droid replied.”

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134. “Because each version of us is a unique individual who deserves to be recognized for themselves – but something deep down inside is always the same.”

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135. “We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.”

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136. “A tyrant can make anything seem to be ’the will of the people.”

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137. “Crying openly was considered a virtue on Gatalenta – proof of a caring heart.”

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138. “We can do this, she reminds herself, looking over at Abel. It feels natural to use we. They’re in this together now. She remembers how tenderly he cared for her when she was sick and marvels at how strange and yet wonderful it is to trust someone that much.”

— Claudia Gray

139. “I’ve held it together all this time. I’ve held it together because I had to, carrying the grief and the fear even when I thought the weight would crush me.”

— Claudia Gray

140. “His gray eyes met mine. “It doesn’t matter where I go. I’ll still be yours.”

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141. “Tyranny turns us into liars, she thought, hating herself even as she applauded.”

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142. “It wasn’t badass. I don’t really do badass.”

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143. “I can hardly bear to look at him; it’s like staring into the brightness and warmth of the sun, knowing that it’s burning you while understanding that it makes your whole life possible.”

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144. “The only thing more compelling than love is power.”

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145. “You’re learning the most powerful lesson of all, my daughter,” Breha continued. “You’re learning how to fall.”

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146. “Thane had never been one of the idealists; he’d accepted Wedge Antilles’s invitation not because he believed the Rebellion was pure good but because he’d learned the Empire was pure evil.”

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147. “If he actually touched her, Leia would not be held responsible for her actions.”

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148. “But do you want this? It’s not much of a life. Don’t you see? It’s the first life I’ve had in four hundred years. With you – in the only way that matters – I’m alive again.”

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149. “People talk about their heart being torn in two, but I always thought it was a metaphor, no more. But it really feels like that, like something precious at the core of me is being ripped into halves, neither of them complete.”

— Claudia Gray

150. “Eternal awesome, however elusive, is no reason to take off in a submarine.”

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