408 Quotes by Claudia Gray

Now I know grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within. Something has been torn out from inside me that will never be filled up, not ever, no matter how long I live. They say “time heals,” but even now, less than a week after my father’s death, I know that’s a lie. What people really mean is that eventually you’ll get used to the pain. You’ll forget who you were without it; you’ll forget what you looked like without your scars.

Alderaan had any number of traditions about braids, about who wore them, and when, and why. The customs varied from continent to continent, age to age. But always, one of the most profoundly intimate acts was to allow someone else to take the braids down.

I love you completely, don’t you see? I even want the worst of you because it it’s still a part of you.

As much as each version has in common with all the others, we’re still unique. Every single one of us, everywhere, is irreplaceable.

I’ve never understood how anybody could be in love with two people at the same time. Your heart can only sing one song at a time.

The man has a soul, Qui-Gon thought. But he makes her carry it.

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.

How do you grieve for another you?

I have no need for a world without you in it.