Claire Legrand Quotes

#1. This marking, said Victoria, running her finger over a knot in the bark. What does it look like to you?
It looks like a heart, said Lawrence. He put his fingers on the knot too. They brushed Victoria's, and he drew back. I mean, not that I think about things like that, or
well, you know.

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#2. How can the world look so perfect when I feel so broken?

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#3. dried blood on Quicksilver's hands,

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#4. I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.

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#5. Victoria hated messes. She hated distractions. Friends were the worst distraction of all.

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#6. That's what life is, you know: a bunch of baby steps, one after another after another, and sometimes you fall, but you always get back up, and eventually you get where you're going.

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#7. WORTHLESS, USELESS

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#8. I am going to die, her brain recited calmly. I am going to be stabbed until I am died. How infuriating. I have so much left to do.

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#9. His eyes shone with an anguish Clara understood well. Loss, horrible loss. Pain and anger, and the world being pulled out from beneath one's feet.

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#10. is that you read my thoughts using magic, and that's how you found out my real name." "Mind

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#11. Sly Boots had betrayed them. They had lost the skeletons.

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#12. Pig! Pig! Pig!" the other girls began to chant, turning up their noses too. Girl's skin crawled with anger. That

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#13. I feel like we are playing the Quiet Game. When you're tired of playing and want to shout out all the words you've been keeping inside you, but you absolutely cannot lose. So instead you sit, and bite down on everything screaming inside you, and wait.

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#14. She had forgotten how to care about the city that had taken so much from her. Forgetting was the only way she had found to keep moving every day.

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#15. Some old ugly woman says she'll teach you magic.

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#16. He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.

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#17. Even after everything else has gone wrong, pancakes still smell the same.

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#18. Who are you?" the boy asked. He examined the stranger from head to toe and made a face. "You're ugly." "And

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#19. So many stories yet to be told, so many secrets to be unearthed. It would happen soon; Clara would make sure of it, and if Nicholas tried to evade her, well, she still had her daggers.

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#20. You cannot shy away from yourself. Look the world in the eye, and it can do nothing to hurt you.

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#21. We all carry secrets' said the fox. 'The more we ignore them, the heavier they become.

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#22. Victoria pushed it open the rest of the way and stepped inside. She left it open in case she needed to make a quick exit. The fact that she had to think about things like quick exits infuriated her.

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#23. If you weren't, well, you
I'd want to kiss you right now. It was fortunate that the room was so dark. Victoria's cheeks turned bright red.

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#24. No, but I'm Quicksilver's friend," Sly Boots replied, "and I won't let her do this alone." Lars

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#25. You're powerful, Clara. Or you could be, if you would let go of your fear long enough to realize it.

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#26. This is our fight, Sly Boots, not yours. You're not a witch." "No,

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#27. 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.

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#28. If you will not choose a name," Mother Petra told five-year-old Girl from behind her enormous desk, "and if you will not answer to any we choose for you, then you will have no name at all." And

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#29. Completely alone, no note, no anything. Hours pass by. Day turns to night. And then, finally, you show up - with blood all over you?"Anastazia

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#30. I'm not like her. I don't steal people."
Mr. Tibbalt watched her, saying nothing.
The silence made Victoria bristle. "Well, I don't.

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#31. If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you're supposed to find the corners first. They are the beginning.

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#32. You were looking for me?
Victoria wondered if she would be red for the rest of her life. Yes.
Isn't that something. Perfect ice queen Victoria looking for skunkish old me.

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#33. Being nothing felt quite the same as being something. Maybe she had never been something at all.

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#34. I want to ask him about these things, but whenever I imagine doing so, I freeze up. I have always been better at writing things than saying them.

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