Claire Quotes

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can put a big yes down for all of the above.

What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the peoples of our lands, but merely peoples...

But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.

We all die. We don't have to live our lives fearing it.

Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.

Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.

He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her, ” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have the same impact.

The first two tracks were pop songs from the 1970s, sung in Danish in a style that was best described as Abba without joy.

Wow, that is so deep.'He meant it, of course.'You're really real, ' he added breathily. 'Say something else.'I decided he wasn't worth punching, and walked away.

The pendulum wall clock ticked and the ancient refrigerator clicked on. From outside came the low mooing of a cow. Such peace, thought Emily.

You know nothing about my grief", said Anastasia. " So speak nothing of it.

Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...

Forgive me, " I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.

Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.

It's not a question of can or can't. There are some things in life you just do.

How do you know I’m any different from the broken, beaten slave you found over seven years ago? - Corin

Fight with me again and let us prove that we will keep what is ours! - Corin

Maybe Adalwulf truly has nothing tae fear for I see before me only cowards willing tae sacrifice everything for the sake of their lives! - Aiden

You? Harmless?” Tam snorted. “What? You don’t think I could pull it off?” Aiden accused. “Well, the fact that you’re practically a walking armory had me convinced otherwise.

It was more than the war that changed me - Corin

You'll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.

We hear rumors of a man who leads a rebellion in the forest, determined to drive the invader out. It's said wherever wolf howls or hawk cries, he appears.

We'll free as many as we can and build an army in the forest. It might take years, but I won't rest until every last Calorin is gone from these shores and my father is restored to the throne. - Corin

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’.

There are certain things we owe our little sisters.

A blown kiss is not a proper kiss. Hugs and kisses should be hugs and kisses, not breaths of air. I am tired of breaths of air and not enough hugs and kisses.

He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.

You must choose the life you live at the time you live it.

Work with what you have. Look good, feel good.

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.

If you fall in darkness, there will be light. If your fall enter depression, there is some sort of happiness. Fall but get up. Weak but be strong. Life is just beginning

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

Acceptance, " she told the young woman. "God is watching over him." The small room was quiet, and Emily felt her muscles relax as she prayed.

There’s no other way but work, work and work. Read widely, live wildly, plumb the depths of your­self, turn your­self inside out until you find your voice

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.

It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.

When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.

I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.

He didn't sleep. His mother was too close. He could see every crease on her face, every worry line he'd ever given her.

Here is a piece of advice. Never pay attention to what a man says when he comes. Anything might be blurted out at that moment, and it rarely means anything.

You only get one life so dream big. Dream bold. Dream in color

I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel.

[We] need people who are kind by instinct, not by effort. But that is what we lack in this time. For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.

Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are