Top 300 Claudia Gray Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Every moment, every day, we are all making something – whether it’s science or art, a relationship to a destiny – building it choice by choice, moment by moment.”

— Claudia Gray

152. “Although Ciena would have liked to have gone down to Cloud City, perhaps to meet Jude’s parents, she remained aboard the Executor.”

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153. “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.”

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154. “She realized, then, something she had never fully understood before. She’d always wondered what had led her father to turn to the dark side, to become Darth Vader. She’d imagined it came from ambition, greed, or some other venal weakness. Never had she considered that the turn might begin in a better place, out of the desire to save someone or to avenge a great wrong. Even if it led to evil, that first impulse might be born out of loyalty, a sense of justice, or even love.”

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155. “We have to bleed out before our hearts can start beating again.”

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156. “But by ending the war now, before it truly begins, the Death Star will save more lives than it took.”

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157. “Maybe I believed in destiny because I wanted to believe.”

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158. “Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.”

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159. “Sometimes she wishes she could turn herself inside out. That way people would see the good in her before they saw the bad.”

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160. “We deceive ourselves into believing we can have what we want most in the world. But it doesn’t always work out that way. We know that now.”

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161. “Where there’s no free will, there’s no sin. If you – if you can’t help it – I know you tried. Thank you for trying –.”

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162. “I like that it’s a mystery – that the universe always knows something we won’t.”

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163. “Genius implies originality and independence.”

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164. “Traveling through the worlds gives you perspective. It makes you value what you have.”

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165. “I wonder how much of the rest of his clothes I could convince him to take off, then wonder where that thought came from. Well I guess I know.”

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166. “One of the hard lessons Leia had learned during the Rebellion was this: Any single life was expendable, including her own.”

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167. “Then Paul bends over me, cradles me in his arms, as if he’s sheltering me from the whole world. I close my eyes, and despite everything, I think I’ve never felt so safe.”

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168. “Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.”

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169. “But just because something’s been damaged doesn’t mean it’s ruined.”

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170. “Your soul is bigger than your programming.”

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171. “The way I see it, men and women oughtn’t to get married just because. You should marry when you’re really truly in love, forever. When you’ve found the one girl you’d most want in the whole world. If you haven’t got that, then best not to marry at all, I think.”

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172. “But we don’t get over grief by denying it. We have to feel it. We have to give it its due.”

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173. “I see the Paul I used to know. The one who made me feel like I might finally fall in love.”

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174. “I lift my eyes to his. It feels both like it’s hard to meet his gaze and like I could never look away.”

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175. “About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.”

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176. “I can tell he’s kissing me this desperately because he thinks it might be the last time. The way I’m kissing him should tell him it’s not. Not even close. 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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177. “Joph talked idly with them, all the while silently making a list of names. He’d share that list with Princess Leia soon. Might come in handy, someday. You never knew. –.”

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178. “This is bigger than math! You can’t just swap one of us out for another!”

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179. “Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.”

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180. “We learn about people by observing their choices.”

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181. “We won’t always be free to travel wherever we will. We won’t always be able to take the time to attend elaborate parties. We won’t always have the chance to dance with the ones we love... So dance now.”

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182. “I could go to a million universes and never find someone else who could make me feel this way. Only my Paul. Only him.”

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183. “And yet when I am traveling, I am brave. I do what has to be done. When I am waiting, I only feel small and hollow and scared.”

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184. “How many people die because of Palpatine’s rule every year? Is it deadlier to fight against that kind of tyranny or to let it flourish? When is it time to give up on peace and take up arms?”

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185. “This is what greed does to humans, Abel thinks. It makes them ignore the love they have in favor of what they can never attain.”

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186. “The dangers we have to fear aren’t the ones we’re used to. They’re coming from directions we never imagined.”

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187. “It isn’t as hard to leave life behind, he thinks, once you’ve had a life worth living.”

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188. “The universe is in fact a multiverse.”

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189. “Sometimes our hearts are wilder than we know.”

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190. “It’s hope that makes us believe in miracles that haven’t come to pass. Hope that crushes us with the unbearable truth.”

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191. “The point of a negotiation is to make each party feel as though they’ve won.”

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192. “Vic bears you no ill will. He is outside drinking the Dew of the Mountain and will be glad to see you yourself again” Ranulf said to Lucas.”

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193. “That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could – to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.”

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194. “Do you have any idea how much I love you?” “Yeah, I’d say I have a pretty good idea.” Leia mock-punched him in the arm, and Han chuckled. “C’mon. You know I love you, too.” “Yes,” she said as she tilted her mouth up for a kiss. “I know.” –.”

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195. “Skype is a much better way to keep in touch.”

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196. “This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.”

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197. “And who is this General Calrissian? Thane decided not to ask that question out loud. If the Rebel Alliance was happy turning over its two most critical missions of all time to a bunch of brand-new generals, okay, fine –.”

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198. “I’ve been thinking.” She pretended to mull the question over. “What if I decided to go flying around the galaxy with some scoundrel?” Han raised his eyebrows and pointed toward his own chest. Leia laughed. “Unless you had another scoundrel in mind.” “Hey, hey. I’m the only scoundrel up for the job.” He shook his head in – surprise? Disbelief? Leia wasn’t sure. What mattered most was the warmth in his smile. Even if Han wasn’t convinced she intended to do this, he liked the idea. Down.”

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199. “Luke said those strong instincts of hers served as proof of the Force, evidence that it was working through her all the time. Maybe he was right. But Leia believed just as much in her experience and her common sense.”

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200. “The opposite of Faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of Faith is certainty”... ”Being humble before God means accepting that you may not possess the only path to Him.”

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