01c. 1970 ADI 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.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
02c. 1970 ADEveryone 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1970 ADHuging 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1970 ADEvery 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.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
06c. 1970 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1970 ADPeople 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1970 ADBut 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 / quote ↗
10c. 1970 ADBut just because something’s been damaged doesn’t mean it’s ruined.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
11c. 1970 ADThe opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
12c. 1970 ADI see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
14c. 1970 ADSelf-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 / quote ↗
15c. 1970 ADI 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1970 ADVic knelt by Lucas's side. 'You look like crap, by the way.''Thanks for breaking it to me gently.' Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
17c. 1970 ADSuspicion," 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1970 ADAll of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
19c. 1970 ADIn my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
20c. 1970 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
21c. 1970 ADI 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 / quote ↗
22c. 1970 ADIt saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
24c. 1970 ADHe deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
