Top 300 Claudia Gray Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “You have to love the mystery. You have to take a chance.”

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252. “All those times you watched me kill Jabba the Hutt, and you never learned from his example. It doesn’t pay to jerk me around.”

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253. “It will always be a fight. Always.”

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254. “He still knew how she moved.”

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255. “He takes my hand and says, ‘Let’s make a world.”

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256. “Everything he’s done, everything he gave up and risked for me: Paul did all that without the slightest idea of being loved in return.”

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257. “None of us can know the full consequences of our actions.”

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258. “Sometimes we all need a reminder to focus on the good things in life.”

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259. “How smug I was, telling Theo how hard we tried to do right by the other selves we visit. I’m so full of it. I took more than this Marguerite’s only night with the man she loved; I took away her choices.”

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260. “Had it been like that for her father? She could never know. But for the first time in a very long while, she had some sense of who Anakin Skywalker might have been before his fall, and of the goodness that must have survived in him through all the darkness, all the years.”

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261. “Nadia looked... weird. Like chugged-a-Butterfinger-Blizzard-in-ninety-seconds-and-got-on-the-Tilt-A-Whirl weird.”

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262. “Fate and mathematics don’t only bring you back to the people you love. They can also bring you to the people you hate.”

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263. “Sometimes the memory of horror is worse than the horror itself.”

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264. “Nobody deserves a broken heart. Everybody deserves to be loved.”

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265. “Pride can be as strong as love, and a hell of a lot crueler.”

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266. “Lucas should’ve run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we’d shared.”

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267. “Everything else I’d ever done, everything I’ve ever been, was erased in an instant.” Leia struggled to find the words. “People who had fought beside me in the war, or served beside me for years in the Senate – they didn’t even see me as myself any longer. All I’ll ever be to them now is Darth Vader’s daughter.”

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268. “How do you grieve for another you?”

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269. “People are more than their worst act. And they are also more than the worst thing ever done to them.”

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270. “Did you spend the entire Rebellion in the company of smugglers and lowlifes?” He probably meant this to be a cutting remark. Instead Leia found herself thinking of the first time she’d really seen Han’s face – in a garbage compactor aboard the Death Star, moments before he fired his blaster at the magnetically sealed walls and nearly killed them all. Leia couldn’t help smiling. “Almost, Senator Casterfo. In fact, I wound up married to one.” Out.”

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271. “When I was little, my friends would get so excited when I told them that my parents did most of their scientific work at home, and they’d come in for the first time looking around for bubbling beakers or dynamos or whatever devices sci-fi shows had taught them to expect. What it mostly means is papers piled on every flat surface. Sure, lately we’ve had a few gadgets, but only a few. Nobody wants to hear that theoretical physics has less to do with shiny lasery stuff and more to do with numbers.”

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272. “Your dreams are as important as anyone else’s. Your future is as important as mine. I’m willing to make compromises, if that’s what it takes for us to remain together – but we shouldn’t compromise before we even start.”

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273. “Whoever wrote the Jedi Code, thought Qui-Gon Jinn, never had to deal with the Hutts.”

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274. “As Obi-Wan will soon learn, the most beautiful form of mastery is the art of letting go.”

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275. “If Kier Domadi wanted to put his arms around her – well, he’d find a way. Or she would.”

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276. “The freedom to choose is the freedom to fail.”

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277. “If the young of the species don’t have motivation to leave the care of their parents, they’ll never lead an independent existence, which means they’ll never reproduce. The species would soon die out. Ergo, the last stage of life before adulthood always involves conflict between parent and offspring.”

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278. “Anyone can fight, given a weapon and an enemy. Anyone can use a lightsaber, given due training or even good luck. But to stand and wait – to have so much patience and fortitude – that, Obi-Wan, is a greater achievement than you can know.”

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279. “She told herself, You can’t be afraid to get your hands dirty. But this wasn’t dirt. This was blood.”

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280. “Many paths can lead to the dark side.”

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281. “Because of you, I’ve been truly alive. And now that I’ve lived, I can be ready to die for something I believe in and the person I love.”

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282. “Doing what is right may be painful to us,” she said, “but doing what is painful to others is rarely right.”

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283. “Time is a circle. The beginning is the end.”

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284. “The desire to know the future sprang from a desire to control the future. The desire to control the future sprang from fear–the fear of the depthless pain and loss the future might hold.”

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285. “Some people, he thought, are drawn to the light as surely as flowers that bend toward a sun.”

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286. “How unfortunate for public morals that being unladylike feels so... exciting.”

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287. “That was another thing Obi-Wan had always respected about Qui-Gon: his compassion. Obi-Wan wasn’t uncaring, at least he hoped not, but sometimes it took him longer to see when someone was hurting, or what they might truly need. Qui-Gon seemed to instinctively understand such things.”

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288. “Sometimes it does a girl good to fall for a bit of a scoundrel, now and then.”

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289. “Ransolm gave her his most winning smile. It was, he knew, a good one, highly effective on most women and more than a few men. Although he was no womanizer, he understood very well how to be charming when necessary.”

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290. “That’s where we differ. You still think the Jedi Order and the Force are the same thing.”

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291. “I’m coming to believe that we must all interpret the Code for ourselves,” Qui-Gon said, “or it ceases to be a living pact and becomes nothing but a prison cell.”

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292. “There was no Jedi so wise that he could not be undone by his own assumptions.”

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293. “We keep telling each other good-bye. When am I finally going to believe it?”

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294. “What place could be farther from anti-Imperial activity than Palpatine’s home planet? They’d be nothing but happy to learn of her trip to the Naboo system.”

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295. “Focus on what you can do, instead of what you can’t.”

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296. “Some people – however courageous and capable they might be – still preferred reading stories to living them, and Reath was among that number.”

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297. “It wasn’t like she had tons of experience, but the kiss seemed like a good one to her. Great, even. Possibly even spectacular. Then Kier kissed her again, and she realized it could get even better, more than she’d ever dreamed.”

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298. “Because the deck is always stacked, Ciena. All we can do is stack it in our favor.”

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299. “On Genesis, sometimes, I’d wonder what I would say to you if I ever saw you again, and I decided – it’s just, thank you. Thank you for loving me. At least I know someone did, just for once in my life.”

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300. “How much energy do I waste, trying to reconcile that which can never be reconciled?”

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