Claudia Gray’s “Evernight” Quotes (12 Quotes)

In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.

Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. HeÆd never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. I'd only become that close to a couple people in my hometown, and I'd always thought it took years. Lucas and I were already there.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.

At first i thought you were one of the human students, when you'd told me about your parents i thought they'd killed your real parents and adopted you. I figured you didn't know what you really were

Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.

I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire's presence in a cold room.

I was the only one who knew the whole truth about Lucas--who he really was, and what we felt for each other. The truth was all I had left of him, and I would have to carry it alone.

If you loved someone, you couldnÆt let lies come between you. No matter what happenedùeven if youÆd already lost each other foreverùyou owed each other the truth.