93 Quotes by Claire Legrand

For too long, we have been tools of those who love us, and those who hate us. Those who think they know our minds, our hearts, our strength. The power that feeds us. [...] Rise with me now, and help me show them how strong we truly are. [...] We are the light. And our fire will wake up the world.

You will show the people who would have caged you forever how mistaken they were to think they ever could.

You've surpassed us, that's true, and some people are afraid and will continue to be. Some will hate you. That's true too. But most will love you, even those who sometimes fear you.

Bring me composers who write their helpless mortality into every melody, singers with storms of grief in their lungs. Bring me people who wish they could stop listening to the music boiling in their blood but cannot, so they tear it from their bodies the only way they know how - through air and strings and drum and pen.

There is too much hate in the world already. Why direct more of it at yourself?

Someone who hates me as he does deserves no piece of my heart.

If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you're supposed to find the corners first. They are the beginning.

But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.

...the thin straight line of her nose, the painful sharpness of her jaw, how she held herself with such stillness. Was it because she was afraid of breaking? Or because she had been broken so many times that the idea no longer frightened her?