Claire Quotes

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

The world is only as small as your mind makes it.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

I just called you corny and said you were wearing a green dress. That's, like, the least flirtatious thing anyone's ever

The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.

Oh, the best dancers know/what grace/every stumble/contains.

…and available man candy. But at least there would be mud, and maybe cows.” p12

True evil is always petty and often incompetent.

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

People always say how you should be yourself. Like yourself is a definite thing, like a toaster or something.

They say there are three kinds of people in the world: those who listen to stories, those who tell them, and those who make them.

She is a figure of legend and fairy tale, one to be taken seriously, or she might knock you off your feet with a quick whirl of the staff she carries everywhere.

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.

There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.

Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).

Do not judge a book by its price!

I think you can fall in love many times, and it depends on what stage you are in your life. Your soulmate requirements or deal-breakers change with you.

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

There are no such thing as ghosts.” Joseph replied.“There are supposedly no such things as Vampires and yet here you are.” Grace quipped flippantly.

Life is too short to cower.

There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

Never judge a book by its price.

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all.

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To regret your soul is to regret your past.

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want.

Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can’t shine a sneaker.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

Breathe in the small things

Make time your friend and not your enemy

Never judge a book by its price"This is the price an author pays to be known. :)

I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.

I'm Julia Malone and nobody has the patent on me!

Lust, I suspect, wears repatent stilettos, that feather boa and not much else. Maybe glossy red lipstick.

The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.

silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire’s anxiety faded. It really would be easier

No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.

You move forward because you have to. Life doesn't stand still. It makes you move on until you want to move on, you know? It'll run you over if you don't move.

When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

I tend the wounded, /and in the tending, wound./Sometimes truly seeing another/is lethal./Loving fully, a bayonet.