Marguerite Caine Quotes

“Ten thousand skies, and a million worlds, and it still wouldn’t be enough for me to share with you. Nothing less than forever will do.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“The multiverse is infinite. So, yeah, we go through some terrible things together, and I’ve seen versions of you who are darker, and damaged, and I don’t care. I want you even when you’re broken. I want you no matter what. Your darkness, your anger, whatever it is you fear inside yourself—it doesn’t matter. I love you completely, don’t you see? I even want the worst of you because it’s still a part of you.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“But just because something’s been damaged doesn’t mean it’s ruined.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“I’m forcing us both to confront the fact that one of our most beautiful dreams was a lie. We both believed in destiny as a kind of guarantee—a promise from the cosmos that we would have our time together in virtually every world we shared. But now I see that believing only in destiny means giving up responsibility. We fooled ourselves into thinking happiness was a gift we would be given time and time again. It’s so much scarier to admit that our lives are in our own flawed, fallible hands. Our futures are not kept safe for us in the cradle of fate. We have to hack them out of stone, dig them out of mud, and build them one messy, imperfect day at a time.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“Stop measuring yourself against us. It’s not the right scale. You have your own gifts, your own talents. Show the world everything you’re capable of, Marguerite. You don’t even see how amazing you are.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“Sometimes paradoxes are where truth begins.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“Fate doesn't guarantee us a happy ending.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“How smug I was, telling Theo how hard we tried to do right by the other selves we visit. I’m so full of it. I took more than this Marguerite’s only night with the man she loved; I took away her choices.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“He wasn't wrong to fall for me. Just in the wrong universe.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“You paint the truth, Marguerite, I don't think you could work any other way.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“We fooled ourselves into thinking happiness was a gift we would be given time and time again. It’s so much scarier to admit that our lives are in our own flawed, fallible hands. Our futures are not kept safe for us in de cradle of fate. We have to hack them out of stone, dig them out of mud, and build them one messy, imperfect day at a time.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“We have a multiverse to save.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“And yet when I am traveling, I am brave. I do what has to be done. When I am waiting, I only feel small and hollow and scared.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“I wish I could put it back together again. Not as it was before- that is of course impossible. But enough to see it, truly see it, as it once was.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“Ero sincera quando ho detto che non credevo nell'amore a prima vista. Ci vuole del tempo per innamorarsi davvero, totalmente di qualcuno. Eppure credo anche che ci sia un momento. Un momento in cui cogli la verità nascosta dentro qualcuno, e lui coglie la verità dentro di te. In quel momento, non appartieni più a te stesso, non completamente. Una parte di te appartiene a lui, e una parte di lui appartiene a te. Quando succede, non si può tornare indietro, per quanto lo si voglia, per quanto ci si provi.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“Those first seconds of silence echo with all the memories we've shared, all the memories we should've gone on to experience together.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You