408 Quotes by Claudia Gray

The Death Star was gone. Had the Empire itself fallen with it?

If I were going to paint the dimension I see in front of me, I’d load my palette up with burnt umber, opaque black, a spectrum of grays – nothing brighter than that. I’d have to grind something into the paint with my thumb, some sort of grit or ash, because the grime here goes deeper than surfaces.

C-3PO thought they were overdoing protocol? That was a very bad sign.

We killed billions of people. We slaughtered billions, and afterward we were expected to applaud.

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.

Also, he was young enough that she didn’t have to worry about any misunderstandings of the romantic variety – but not so young that she had to feel guilty about appreciating the view.

I’d rather burn in a better kind of flame.

I’ve always thought real love could only come later. After you both know each other, trust each other. After days, or weeks, or months spent together – learning to understand everything that isn’t spoken out loud.

Our destiny isn’t some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.