Claire Legrand > Quotes

“Girls hunger. And we’re taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn’t enough food for us all.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“We all have darkness inside us, Rielle,” he said, his voice rough. “That is what it means to be human.”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn

“I fear no darkness
I fear no night
I ask the shadows
To aid my fight”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn

“Some say the Queen was frightened in her last moments. But I like to think that she was angry.”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn

“Screw that book,” said Val. “It was written by men.” She held out her free hand to Marion. “We’re rewriting it.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“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.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“We are more than what's been done to us. We are more then our anger.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“You cannot shy away from yourself. Look the world in the eye, and it can do nothing to hurt you.”
― Claire Legrand, Winterspell

“People like us don’t fight for our own hope,” he said quietly. “We fight for everyone else’s.”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn

“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.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“She was night itself reborn on earth, a queen swathed in shadows.”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn

“She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“I start to worry that I should be saying something. Most of the time I think I could be perfectly content without saying a single word, but no one else seems to function that way. There is so much talking in the world, and so much expectation to talk, even if you do not feel like talking. I find it overwhelming.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“Hope, she thought, breathing with the tide, was a choice that only those with resolute hearts dared to make.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“I don’t love you,” she whispered, the lie bitter on her tongue. “I refuse to love you.” “I know,” he said and held her to him, stroking her hair. “I don’t love you either.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“Dread,” he murmured, his breath caressing her cheek, “is only a feeling, easily squashed. But wolves, my dear, have teeth.”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn

“There is too much hate in the world already. Why direct more of it at yourself?”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“From sky to sky
From sea to sea
Steady so I stand
And never will I flee.”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn

“to all the girls who have my back-
the queens and the witches
the poets and the mothers-
to the girls who raise their voices
and
to the girls who light the way”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“How can the world look so perfect when I feel so broken?”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“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.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“It's a strange feeling, when you hear a good piece of music. It starts out kind of shaky, this hot, heavy knot in your chest. At first it's tiny, like a spot of light in a dark room, but then it builds, pouring through you. And the next thing you know, everything from your forehead down to your fingers and toes is on fire. You feel like the hot, heavy knot in your chest is turning into a bubble. It's full of everything good in the world, and if you don't do something--if you don't run or dance or shout to everyone in the world about this music you've just heard--it'll explode.”
― Claire Legrand, The Year of Shadows

“We are the light against the darkness, and we must continue to burn brightly, so others may find their way out.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Perhaps if nothing else, what’s happened has taught you that there is more to life - and even to war - than simply staying alive.”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn

“It’s unfair that you should have to bear so much.” “Me? Or women?”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Like the sun and the moon. Like day and night. I am the shore and you are the sea, my darling. The wild, wild sea - ever-changing and mighty. I need your passion, and you need something steady to come home to. An anchor, warm and sunlit.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“It would be easier, he knew, if he had never loved her. And yet, given the choice, he would do it again, even knowing what was to come. He would lose her a thousand times over if it meant he would first have the chance to love her.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Do you even remember how many people you've killed, Eliana?"
…
"Eighty-seven," she whispered as the gunshots continued. "Eighty-eight. Eighty-nine.”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn