Claudia Gray
Quotes by Claudia Gray
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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.
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You're going to tell me that last night shouldn't have happened.—No. I'm glad it happened. For too long, I've been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not have it mean anything. It does mean something. You mean something to me. But I'm not in love with you.
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We are this world. Its next generation. If you're not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?
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The only thing more compelling than love is power.
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That's right, she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. You weren't with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror.You saw your parents at the best, Mom murmurs, before Dad sweeps her into another kiss. Go ahead, Josie calls. Mate in public. Tonight we won't even mind. You deserve to break a few decency laws.
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Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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He deserves better than this. But deserves doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.
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Your soul is bigger than your programming.
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It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they're not like other girls – especially when it's 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It's taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I'm special, I'm not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.The real meaning of "I'm not like the other girls" is, I think, "I'm not the media's image of what girls should be." Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we're all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It's a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.
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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.
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The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.
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In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.
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All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.
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Suspicion, he said. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius. Starring Cary Grant. When Lucas gave me a look, I added, You have your priorities, I have mine.
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Vic knelt by Lucas's side. 'You look like crap, by the way.''Thanks for breaking it to me gently.' Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.
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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.
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I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.
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He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world.
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I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.
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The opposite of faith isn't doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.
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