01UndatedRachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
02UndatedThat's right", she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. "You weren't with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror.""You saw your parents at the best," Mom murmurs, before Dad sweeps her into another kiss. "Go ahead," Josie calls. "Mate in public. Tonight we won't even mind. You deserve to break a few decency laws.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
04UndatedWe are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?Claudia Gray / quote ↗
05UndatedYou’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 / quote ↗
06UndatedEster would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could—to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
08UndatedNow I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
09UndatedBut grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
10UndatedMy hate is stronger than the dimensions, stronger than memory, stronger than time. My hate is now the truest part of who I am.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
13UndatedBefore you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
14UndatedDon't you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
15UndatedYou 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 / quote ↗
16UndatedThat was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
17UndatedWe can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
20UndatedEvery single world we've visited isn't just random—it's the result of countless choices, all of them combining to create a new reality. You and I have been given an infinity of chances, and that's so much more than mot people will ever get—but in the end we get to live in only one world, and that's the world we make. I want us to create that world together.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
22UndatedNoemy says, “I guess it’s just the idea of love I miss. And, well, it was a good kiss.” Her smile turns rueful. “At least I got some practice.” A wonderful idea occurs to Abel. “Do you need more practice?” “Huh?” “We could practice, if you wanted."He smiles as he starts to explain."Remember what I told you on Genesis? I’m programmed with a wide array of techniques for providing physical pleasure, via every activity from kissing to the more arcane positions for sexual intercourse. Although I’ve never performed any of them before, I’m confident I could do so very skillfully.” She stares at him, eyes wide. Since she is swift to voice objections if she has them, Abel takes her silence as an encouraging sign. So he sits up on the bed to explain the further compelling reasons now coming to mind. “Humans need a certain amount of physical release and comfort in order to be psychologicallly healthy. You’ve been away from your family and friends for some time, and have endured considerable trauma, suggesting you are in even greater need than usual. I have all the information and technique necessary to be an excellent partner, my body is designed to be appealing, and of course I can neither carry disease nor impregnate you. We have total privacy and many hours of spare time. Conditions for intercourse would seem to be ideal.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
24Undated…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us.Claudia Gray / quote ↗
