Quotes by Claudia Gray

I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. 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 glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you wont have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then youll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.

I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.

People get stupid when theyre in love; people want what they cant have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

But do you want this? Its not much of a life. Dont you see? Its the first life Ive had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--Im alive again.

Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.

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

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

I see... the way youre always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How youre older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How youre always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. Its all in the eyes.

He takes my hand and says, Lets make a world.

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.

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. Youre in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who arent in love. You know, the sane ones.

Vic knelt by Lucass side. You look like crap, by the way.Thanks for breaking it to me gently. Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.

Suspicion, he said. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Hes a genius. Starring Cary Grant. When Lucas gave me a look, I added, You have your priorities, I have mine.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday Ive got to figure out how that happened.

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

The library wouldve 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.