Claudia Gray quotes

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.
-- Claudia Gray

#Love #Lying #Romance

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.
-- Claudia Gray

#Lonely #Past #Worry

That means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.
-- Claudia Gray

#Mean #Matter

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.
-- Claudia Gray

#Love You #People #Kind

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.
-- Claudia Gray

#Self #Cookies #Enough

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.
-- Claudia Gray

#Stupid #Years #People

Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. “I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn’t spend ’em too cheap.” Ranulf nodded. “That is the manner in which I roll.
-- Claudia Gray

#Gun #Men #Two

About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.
-- Claudia Gray

#Vampire #Grew Up #Grew

I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need."-Bianca to Lucas
-- Claudia Gray

#Lonely #Fighting #Needs

The only one taking a risk here is me, if I get too attached to you. It’s not risky for you, as long as you’re not confused either.” “I’m not.” “Of course you aren’t.” A small smile played on Balthazar’s lips.
-- Claudia Gray

#Confused #Long #Risk

forget normal, we're going to be extraordinary" -Lucas :)
-- Claudia Gray

#Normal #Forget #Extraordinary

Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.
-- Claudia Gray

#Honor #Calling #Weirdo

I’ll never die", he said. Before I could protest, Lucas put two fingers on my lips, his smile seemed to fill the room with lights and I realized he was telling a deeper kind of truth then I’d ever known before “You’ll live forever and being remembered by you is the only immortality I’ll ever need if I only live on as a part of you – Bianca, that’s my idea of heaven
-- Claudia Gray

#Light #Ideas #Two

Forget normal.” He grinned. “We’re going to be extraordinary.
-- Claudia Gray

#Normal #Forget #Extraordinary

Is this what it means to die? Lucas thought. Because I’m not scared of it anymore. Not if it means I finally get this close to you.
-- Claudia Gray

#Mean #Scared

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.
-- Claudia Gray

#Trying #Poor #Danger

We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.
-- Claudia Gray

#Hate #Fire #Our Love

this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.
-- Claudia Gray

#Sadness #Thinking #Forever

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.
-- Claudia Gray

#Hands #Done #Doorways

What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.
-- Claudia Gray

#Kind #Good Things #Found

That is the manner in which I roll.
-- Claudia Gray

Vic bears you no ill will. He is outside drinking the Dew of the Mountain and will be glad to see you yourself again" Ranulf said to Lucas.
-- Claudia Gray

#Drinking #Mountain #Dew

° “Not a ghost, but an angel.
-- Claudia Gray

#Angel #Ghost

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.
-- Claudia Gray

#People #My Best Friend #Someday

He breathed out, not quite a laugh or a sob. "God, yes. Bianca, I love you so much. Even if I never see you again, even if we walk out of here into an ambush you set up with your parents, I am always going to love you.
-- Claudia Gray

#Love You #Laughing #Parent

Lucas," I repeated. "I know you can hear me. The guy I love is still in there. Come back to me." Once again longed for the release of tears. "Death couldn't keep me from you. And it can't keep you from me, not if you don't let it.
-- Claudia Gray

#Love Is #Guy #Tears

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.
-- Claudia Gray

#Years #Alive #Four

Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.
-- Claudia Gray

#Guy #Hot #Texting

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

#Opinion #Should #Wealthy

What had seemed like love was betrayal
-- Claudia Gray

#Betrayal

Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.
-- Claudia Gray

#Guy #This Guy #Wanted

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.
-- Claudia Gray

#Irony #Said #Contrast

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.
-- Claudia Gray

#Wall #Book #Dark

He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me." We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, "Forgive me.
-- Claudia Gray

#Kissing #Hands #Forgive Me

You’re strong enough to stand up to anyone. Smart enough to do anything you want. Don’t sell yourself short; don’t be afraid of what your new life is going to offer. Because I know—if there’s any justice in this world, good things are going to come to you. Better things than you ever dreamed.
-- Claudia Gray

#Strong #Smart #Justice

As far as I can see, in this world, you’re a fool for not using whatever gifts you’re given. It’s not as though you lied or cheated or stole to get Howard Marlowe as your father. That’s who he is; that’s who you are. You got dealt a bad card when you were bitten—so use one of the better cards you have in your hand to make up for it.
-- Claudia Gray

#Father #Hands #Cards

It’s less as if he sees me and more as if . . . something happens to him.
-- Claudia Gray

You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human fire now. "Or because you pity me?" I couldn't guess which possibility he loathes more. I fold my arms. "I can't leave because the door's locked. Believe me, I would've gone hours ago if I could have." "Oh. Of course." Then he looks so abashed--so boyish, and so handsome--that I almost want to laugh.
-- Claudia Gray

#Believe #Eye #Doors

Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I’m not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.
-- Claudia Gray

#Life #Fighting #Able

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do.
-- Claudia Gray

#Olympus #Ruling #Universe

I wonder how much of the rest of his clothes I could convince him to take off, then wonder where that thought came from. Well I guess I know.
-- Claudia Gray

#Clothes #Wonder #Wells

You'll live forever, and being remembered by is the only immortality I'll ever need. If i only live on as a part of you--Bianca, that's my idea of Heaven
-- Claudia Gray

#Ideas #Forever #Heaven

I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire's presence in a cold room.
-- Claudia Gray

#Fire #Rooms #Way

It wasn't badass. I don't really do badass.
-- Claudia Gray

#Badass

Do you question my authority? I am the headmistress of Evernight!" It was Balthazar who answered her by casually slinging his crossbow back upon his shoulder so that it just happened to be aimed straight at Mrs. Bethany. He wasn't threatening her, exactly, but it was very clear that he wasn't going to back down. As she jerked upright in shock, Balthazar drawled, "School's out.
-- Claudia Gray

#School #Threatening #Authority

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.
-- Claudia Gray

#Priorities #Looks #Genius

The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place." -Charity
-- Claudia Gray

#Vampire #Charity #Sanctuary

But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.
-- Claudia Gray

#Teacher #Destiny #Escaping

Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.
-- Claudia Gray

#Liberty #Calendars #Red

Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.
-- Claudia Gray

#Lying #Black #Secret

The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything. He’d told me my parents lied. I yelled at him for it. He forgave me. He told me vampires were killers. I told him they weren’t, even after one stalked Raquel. He told me Charity was dangerous. I didn’t listen, and she killed Courtney. He told me vampires were treacherous, and did I get the message? Not until my illusions had been destroyed by my parents’ confession.
-- Claudia Gray

#Parent #Vampire #Messages

I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.” I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.
-- Claudia Gray

#Doors #Trying #Cry

Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.
-- Claudia Gray

#Voice

It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d always told all my secrets to, the ones I’d wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldn’t imagine why. It couldn’t possibly matter why.
-- Claudia Gray

#Two #People #Parent

He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.
-- Claudia Gray

#Forever #Shelter #Realizing

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.
-- Claudia Gray

#Love You #Mean #Flirting

It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.
-- Claudia Gray

#Cute #Baby #Fall

Lucas seemed to have realized our prediciment at the same moment I had. "I haven't got my credit card with me. Kinda left in a hurry. We just spent the only cash I had in my pocket." Too-bright signs from the few open stores made mee squint. "We'd have been better off with a slingshot and Oreos.
-- Claudia Gray

#Pockets #Oreos #Cards

I was the only one who knew the whole truth about Lucas--who he really was, and what we felt for each other. The truth was all I had left of him, and I would have to carry it alone.
-- Claudia Gray

The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. I'd only become that close to a couple people in my hometown, and I'd always thought it took years. Lucas and I were already there.
-- Claudia Gray

#Couple #Years #People

You're alive, Bianca. You still can't appreciate what it means, to be alive. It's better than being a vampire - better than anything else in the world. I remember a little of waht being alive was like, and if I could touch that again, even for a day, it would be worth anything in the world. Even dying again, forever. All the centuries I've known and all the marvels I've seen don't compare to being alive." ~from Evernight, by
-- Claudia Gray

#Mean #Appreciate #Forever

I know we only talked once-" "But it meant something to you." Our eyes met for only an instant. "It meant something to me, too. I just didn't realize - Well, I thought it was only me.
-- Claudia Gray

#Eye #Realizing #Mets

I'm not dating Balthazar. I'm pretend dating him. Which involves some not pretend hand-holding. And maybe some not pretend kissing. But it's all actually pretend, see? I groaned. My explanations were making my head hurt already.
-- Claudia Gray

#Hurt #Kissing #Hands

I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each other. But he won’t give us away, Lucas. He’s even willing to help us see each other, as long as we help him with Charity.” “What, like, a fund-raiser or something?” I’d forgotten he didn’t know her name. “The vampire girl in Amherst.” “Wait—Charity? That’s her name? You were able to figure out who she is.” He smiled so proudly that all the tension of the moment instantly melted. “I fell in love with a genius.
-- Claudia Gray

#Girl #Names #Long

Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face? - How is a hamburger supposed to punch me in the face? Just say that it can. Would you bother? Or would you eat something else?
-- Claudia Gray

#Hamburgers #Faces #Chance

Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights." "Divorce?" Despite myself, I laughed. Only Vic could call the aftermath of a bad first date a divorce. We hadn't exactly been friends beforehand, so "still" was an exaggeration, but it would've been mean to point that out. Besides, I liked Vic. "We're still friends." "Excellent. The weirdos have to stick together around here." "Are you calling me a weirdo?" "Highest honor I can bestow.
-- Claudia Gray

#Divorce #Mean #Rights

I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).
-- Claudia Gray

#Harm

Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice
-- Claudia Gray

#Sacrifice #Soldier #Causes

God? Nope." requel's smile told me she was joking around to make this easier for me "santa clause? No again.
-- Claudia Gray

#Santa #Joking Around #Easier

For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what ‘my own good’ truly was
-- Claudia Gray

#Clue #Used

You gotta learn how to take a compliment, because I'm not going to stop making them.
-- Claudia Gray

#Compliment

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

#Silence #Victory #Insult

I guess it's hard, being apart all the time." "It really is. If Lucas were still here, everything would be different." Vic's smile turned smug. "Yeah, I'd have a roommate who could beat me at chess instead of the other way around." Ranulf never looked up from the chessboard. "I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory." "Keep dreaming," Vic called.
-- Claudia Gray

#Dream #Silence #Victory

Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.
-- Claudia Gray

#School #Waiting #Missing

You're impossible," he murmured. "But you're worth it.
-- Claudia Gray

#Impossible #Worth It

Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.
-- Claudia Gray

#Running #Moving #Kissing

That buy is totally cracked out," Vic said one day, as we walked past Balthazar in the great hall. I don't think he's on alything." I didn't mean, for real. If he was cracked out for real, he'd probably be having more fun, right?" Vic shrugged. "Balty looks like he's not having any fun. He looks like he never had any. Like he wouldn't know fun if it started dancing around yelling 'I'm fun' in his face.
-- Claudia Gray

#Fun #Real #Mean

I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It's just an old spirit stuck between the worlds, right? What's to be scared of?"" ~Vic
-- Claudia Gray

#Kids #Stories #World

How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays holed up with her art projects, and Ranulf's off studying his Norse myths again, i do something else. Something crazy. Something strange. I call it 'talking to other people.' Through this miraculous process, I am sometimes able to learn facts about two or three other human beings in a single day. Scientists plan to study my method." ~Vic
-- Claudia Gray

#Art #Crazy #Talking

Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.
-- Claudia Gray

#Pain #Flower #Heart