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Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2) QUOTES

Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2) QUOTES

1 " But grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

2 " Also, somehow, there doesn't seem to be any old-fashioned gender roles in place, or any gender roles at all. The priest who condemned me to the mob was a woman. I'll cheer for equality later. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

3 " He wasn't wrong to fall for me. Just in the wrong universe. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

4 " 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 (Firebird, #2)

5 " 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 (Firebird, #2)

6 " 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 (Firebird, #2)

7 " 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 (Firebird, #2)

8 " I want you when it’s crazy, when it’s frightening, when it’s impossible, because there’s nothing within you that could hurt me half as much as not having you. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

9 " When I traveled, and got lost within the other Paul Markovs—I always sensed the differences. The ways they thought and spoke and dreamed that I never would, or could. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

10 " Your dreams are as important as anyone else’s. Your future is as important as mine. I’m willing to make compromises, if that’s what it takes for us to remain together—but we shouldn’t compromise before we even start. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

11 " I could go to a million universes and never find someone else who could make me feel this way. Only my Paul. Only him. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

12 " 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. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

13 " I loved you enough to give you up. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

14 " I love you completely, don't you see? I even want the worst of you because it it's still a part of you. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

15 " This is bigger than math! You can’t just swap one of us out for another! "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

16 " And I love you. In any world, any universe. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

17 " Traveling through the worlds gives you perspective. It makes you value what you have. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

18 " There is a strength within us that we can't even comprehend until it's called upon. We are, at our core, built to survive. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

19 " That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)

20 " Sometimes I look at you, and I think—if I didn’t know we shared a destiny, if I hadn’t seen the proof for myself, I’d never believe this was real. That you could love me as much as I love you. "

― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)