Top 300 Claudia Gray Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I could go to a million universes and never find someone else who could make me feel this way. Only my Paul. Only him.”

— Claudia Gray

152. “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.”

— Claudia Gray

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

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

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

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

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

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158. “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.”

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159. “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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160. “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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161. “I like that it’s a mystery – that the universe always knows something we won’t.”

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162. “Genius implies originality and independence.”

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

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164. “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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165. “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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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. “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.”

— Claudia Gray

171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.”

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175. “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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176. “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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177. “Me gustan los hombres que conocen el valor de las palabras y no las derrochan.”

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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. “Also, he was young enough that she didn’t have to worry about any misunderstandings of the romantic variety – but not so young that she had to feel guilty about appreciating the view.”

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180. “Oh, no, Nadia. There are plenty of limits, and trust me, the world will smack you down and teach you where they are. But make the world do that. Don’t do it to yourself.”

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181. “We have a multiverse to save.”

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182. “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.”

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183. “In every universe, everywhere, people just plain screw up.”

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184. “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 of loyalty, a sense of justice, or even love. Had it been like that for her father?”

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185. “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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186. “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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187. “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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188. “It isn’t as hard to leave life behind, he thinks, once you’ve had a life worth living.”

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

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

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

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

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195. “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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196. “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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197. “Skype is a much better way to keep in touch.”

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

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199. “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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200. “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.”

— Claudia Gray