Claudia Gray Quotes & Sayings

It can't be. They would never do that again.
But they had. Ciena couldn't deny what she saw-
-a second Death Star. — Claudia Gray

I've never met anyone like you, Bianca. Anyone born to be a vampire, I mean. But as I understand it, you can't put it off forever. Sooner or later, you'll have to kill. — Claudia Gray

Josie shattered into many pieces, too fragmentary to collect. But it wouldn't be impossible to travel to each of those worlds. After all, you needn't stay long." Mom puts a hand on my shoulder, a touch meant to soothe that instead makes my skin crawl. "You won't be killing anyone, Marguerite. The entire dimension will simply be erased from the multiverse. No one will feel any pain. No one will even know." When a dimension died, it would take its entire history with it. The people within it wouldn't die; they would never have been born. — Claudia Gray

When the people with authority don't have to answer to citizens of the galaxy, the result is tyranny. — Claudia Gray

Fate doesn't guarantee us a happy ending. We're not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn't some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance. — Claudia Gray

In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy. — Claudia Gray

But this role doesn't need an adventurer as much as it needs someone who can... look at each world with fresh eyes. Who can perceive things deeply. Not an adventurer - an artist. You were the one we needed all along. — Claudia Gray

I like that it's a mystery -- that the universe always knows something we won't. — Claudia Gray

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

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. — Claudia Gray

I feel bound to mention that lots of universes also have wars, and yet we are the Warverse. Sophie and I also teach at Cambridge in many quantum realities, but there is only one Cambridgeverse. And while absolutely every dimension discovered so far has an ocean, we have nonetheless designated an Oceanverse. In other words, my darling girl, the names are all sort of arbitrary and rubbish and it's not worth making a fuss over, is it? — Claudia Gray

Paul says, "If not for yourself, my lady, stay alive for me."
Our eyes meet.
His next words are a whisper. "I have no need for a world without you in it. — Claudia Gray

Paul," I murmur, "call me by my name."
"You know I cannot."
"Just once. Just once I want to hear you say my name."
Paul brings his face close to mine, so close we are nearly touching. "Marguerite."
And we are lost. — Claudia Gray

I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly.
"Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you."
"Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it. — Claudia Gray

I guess it's hard, being apart all the time."
"It really is. If Lucas were still here, everything would be different."
Vic's smile turned smug. "Yeah, I'd have a roommate who could beat me at chess instead of the other way around."
Ranulf never looked up from the chessboard. "I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory."
"Keep dreaming," Vic called. — Claudia Gray

You're strong enough to stand up to anyone. Smart enough to do anything you want. Don't sell yourself
short; don't be afraid of what your new life is going to offer. Because I know - if there's any justice in this
world, good things are going to come to you. Better things than you ever dreamed. — Claudia Gray

But by ending the war now, before it truly begins, the Death Star will save more lives than it took. — Claudia Gray

The people who get their portraits painted-rich people-they want to look good. — Claudia Gray

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. — Claudia Gray

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

Forget normal, we're going to be extraordinary
-Lucas — Claudia Gray

Bianca Olivier- Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face?
Lucas Ross- How is a hamburger supposed to punch me in the face? — Claudia Gray

This is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer)
charity to Balthazar
You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more. — Claudia Gray

But she understood how to interpret shadows. — Claudia Gray

Do you question my authority? I am the headmistress of Evernight!" It was Balthazar who answered her by casually slinging his crossbow back upon his shoulder so that it just happened to be aimed straight at Mrs. Bethany. He wasn't threatening her, exactly, but it was very clear that he wasn't going to back down. As she jerked upright in shock, Balthazar drawled, "School's out. — Claudia Gray

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within. — Claudia Gray

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. - — Claudia Gray

Apparently, when people travel between dimensions, their physical forms are "no longer observable," which is a quantum mechanics thing, and explaining it involves this whole story about a cat that's in a box and is simultaneously alive and dead until you open the box, and it gets seriously complicated. Never ask a physicist about that cat. — Claudia Gray

The only one taking a risk here is me, if I get too attached to you.
It's not risky for you, as long as you're not confused either."
"I'm not."
"Of course you aren't." A small smile played on Balthazar's lips. — Claudia Gray

Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart. — Claudia Gray

In every universe, everywhere, people just plain screw up. — Claudia Gray

We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was. — Claudia Gray

One night, I drink too many toasts with vodka, and once in my blameless, virtuous life, I wind up getting sick in a decorative urn. The price? My sister's eternal condemnation." "Not condemnation. But eternal teasing? Definitely. — Claudia Gray

Okay, so, how did you know to show up in the woods like that? Do you just go around finding people in trouble like ... vampire Batman or something? — Claudia Gray

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 get a glimpse within you. In that moment you don't belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him and a part of him belongs to you. After that, you can't take it back, no matter how much you want to, no natter how hard you try. — Claudia Gray

I told myself it didn't matter if I never got to be with you. It was enough just to love you. — Claudia Gray

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. — Claudia Gray

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 — Claudia Gray

And it was a really bad sign of how much fun you weren't having when you actually missed shoveling horse poo. — Claudia Gray

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

Lights are on, and I'm not in pain, and never before have I been so keenly aware that this is all anyone really needs. — Claudia Gray

Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty. — Claudia Gray

For our kind, death is only the beginning. — Claudia Gray

When you think you've finally figured things out? That's usually when your plans go to hell. — Claudia Gray

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do. — Claudia Gray

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

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 — Claudia Gray

Genius implies originality and independence. — Claudia Gray

Forget normal." He grinned. "We're going to be extraordinary. — Claudia Gray

Everyone is lonely," Ranulf said, but he smiled. "We have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about past or future. Happiness is in the now."
Raquel laughed. "Vic has totally brainwashed you. — Claudia Gray

You could stay in my bed."
That conjured up all kinds of dangerous thoughts. Stop it, he told himself. Her teddy bear is in this room. — Claudia Gray

You paint the truth, Marguerite. — Claudia Gray

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

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens. — Claudia Gray

He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world. — Claudia Gray

Bath," I said, relishing the short A of my new accent. "Baaaath. Privacy. Aluminum. Laboratory. Tomato. Schhhhhedule."
The giggles come over me, and I stop right there, hand against my chest, trying to catch my breath. I know I'm laughing mostly because I refuse to give in and start crying. The grief for my father has nowhere to go and is twisting every other mood I have into knots. And ... tomahhhhto. That's hilarious. — Claudia Gray

Skype is a much better way to keep in touch. — Claudia Gray

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. — Claudia Gray

The universe is in fact a multiverse. — Claudia Gray

You'll live forever, and being remembered by you is the only immortality I'll ever need. If I only live on as a part of yo- Bianca, that's my idea of heaven — Claudia Gray

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. — Claudia Gray

It's hope that makes us believe in miracles that haven't come to pass. Hope that crushes us with the unbearable truth. — Claudia Gray

I fell in love with his unchanging soul. — Claudia Gray

We were having a serious conversation about a murder in another dimension, that's all, but that's not an explanation my big sister needs to hear. — Claudia Gray

Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined.
But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black. — Claudia Gray

A ceremony honoring the memory of BAIL ORGANA has drawn the Senate together in rare harmony. It is a day of celebration, but even now, the divisions among the worlds of the galaxy are growing wider ... . — Claudia Gray

People can forgive anything except being proved wrong. — Claudia Gray

In despair Leia thought, They are using both my fathers against me. — Claudia Gray

Crying openly was considered a virtue on Gatalenta - proof of a caring heart. — Claudia Gray

Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas
If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice — Claudia Gray

But just because something's been damaged doesn't mean it's ruined. — Claudia Gray

It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents
the people I'd loved the most in the world, the ones I'd always told all my secrets to, the ones I'd wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldn't imagine why. It couldn't possibly matter why.
— Claudia Gray

The dangers we have to fear aren't the ones we're used to. They're coming from directions we never imagined. — Claudia Gray

Dad peers around the corner, his face barely visible above Mom's exuberant philodendron. "Have both of you gone mad simultaneously?" "Yeah," Theo says, "it saves time." That makes Dad laugh; — Claudia Gray

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He'd never guessed that I was the dangerous one. — Claudia Gray

The opposite of faith isn't doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty. — Claudia Gray

That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them. — Claudia Gray

Are you calling me a weirdo?
Highest honor I can bestow. — Claudia Gray

Also, somehow, there doesn't seem to be any old-fashioned gender roles in place, or any gender roles at all. The priest who condemned me to the mob was a woman. I'll cheer for equality later. — Claudia Gray

If our destiny is nothing more than a prediction of a collision, an intersection between two paths, then we don't have a destiny at all. — Claudia Gray

Eternal awesome, however elusive, is no reason to take off in a submarine. — Claudia Gray

That buy is totally cracked out," Vic said one day, as we walked past Balthazar in the great hall.
I don't think he's on alything."
I didn't mean, for real. If he was cracked out for real, he'd probably be having more fun, right?" Vic shrugged. "Balty looks like he's not having any fun. He looks like he never had any. Like he wouldn't know fun if it started dancing around yelling 'I'm fun' in his face. — Claudia Gray

I lift my eyes to his. It feels both like it's hard to meet his gaze and like I could never look away. — Claudia Gray

The only thing more compelling than love is power. — Claudia Gray

A tyrant can make anything seem to be 'the will of the people. — Claudia Gray

Sorry I'm late, sweetheart," said Han.

She slipped into the empty copilot's chair beside him. "Honey, you're right on time. — Claudia Gray

I didn't tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in
after the last time you and I saw each other. But he won't give us away,
Lucas. He's even willing to help us see each other, as long as we help
him with Charity."
"What, like, a fund-raiser or something?"
I'd forgotten he didn't know her name. "The vampire girl in Amherst."
"Wait - Charity? That's her name? You were able to figure out who
she is." He smiled so proudly that all the tension of the moment instantly
melted. "I fell in love with a genius. — Claudia Gray

I thought you were opposed to engaging in prostitution to fund our travels."
"That's not what I - is prostitution your answer for everything? — Claudia Gray

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

Sometimes the memory of horror is worse than the horror itself. — Claudia Gray

Every single world we've visited isn't just random - it's the result of countless choices, all of them combining to create a new reality. You and I have been given an infinity of chances, and that's so much more than mot people will ever get - but in the end we get to live in only one world, and that's the world we make. I want us to create that world together. — Claudia Gray

Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again. — Claudia Gray

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. — Claudia Gray

The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place.
-Charity
— Claudia Gray

Paul looks like he'd rather just go home and make out in the kitchen; I would agree, except that I know my Dad is likely to be in there with his laptop, listening to the Beatles music as he catches up on all the Facebook "in memoriam" posts in his honor. Total mood-killer. — Claudia Gray

Fate and mathematics don't only bring you back to the people you love. They can also bring you to the people you hate. — Claudia Gray

Nadia looked ... weird. Like chugged-a-Butterfinger-Blizzard-in-ninety-seconds-and-got-on-the-Tilt-A-Whirl weird. — Claudia Gray

There are patterns within the dimensions," Paul insisted, never looking up again. "Mathematical parallels. It's plausible to hypothesize that these patterns will be reflected in events and people in each dimension. That people who have met in one quantum reality will be likely to meet in another. Certain things that happen will happen over and over, in different ways, but more often than you could explain by chance alone."
"In other words," I said, "you're trying to prove the existence of fate."
I was joking, but Paul nodded slowly, like I'd said something intelligent. "Yes. That's it exactly. — Claudia Gray

Traveling through the worlds gives you perspective. It makes you value what you have. — Claudia Gray

Mathematical parallels. It's plausible to hypothesize that these patterns will be reflected in events and people in each dimension. That people who have met in one quantum reality will be likely to meet in another. Certain things that happen will happen over and over, in different ways, but more often than you could explain by chance alone. — Claudia Gray