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One of the novel’s four narrators, and a senior at Opportunity High School. When the shooting begins she is outside the school attending track practice, so she spends the morning running for help and watching from the outside as police attempt to defuse the situation. Because she once dated Tyler, the shooter, Claire feels guilty for failing to anticipate his actions or warn someone about his descent into anger and bitterness after his mother’s death. Deeply rooted in the track and JROTC communities at her high school, Claire is feeling directionless and struggling to conceive of an independent identity as graduation approaches. The shooting has the unexpected consequence of causing her to feel more rooted in her community and committed to improving it; by the time the day ends, she has decided to become a teacher. Her relationship to her best friend, Chris, also evolves; amid the day’s heightened emotions he confesses to a longtime crush on her, and the two find respite from their feelings of alienation and insecurity by planning a future together. Claire is extremely close to her older sister Tracy, a soldier on deployment, and her Lupus-stricken younger brother Matt, whom she cares for and protects; however, since Matt is trapped inside the auditorium during the shooting, she’s helpless to protect him from her ex-boyfriend, and in the final passages of the novel she has to grapple with her brother’s murder.
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The This Is Where It Ends quotes below are all either spoken by Claire Morgan or refer to Claire Morgan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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It sounds glorious, but with months left until graduation, I have no clue what the future looks like. If Opportunity shaped me, I didn’t notice. Running, I know. This track, I know. One step after another after another. It doesn’t matter what comes next, as long as I keep moving forward.
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Chapter 2
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Before we broke up, Tyler told me the best part of high school was getting out ASAP. Still, I wish it didn’t have to end yet. It’ll be hard to say good-bye to our team, to our cadets, to each other. Life will be grayer without seeing Chris all day, every day.
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Chapter 6
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I smiled sadly, not wanting to deny him his dream. Almost everyone in our class talked about leaving Opportunity, but even though Ty wasn’t happy here, he never did. Sometimes it felt as if he and I walked the same road, but each of us was going in a different direction.
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Chapter 8
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“Ty wasn’t just angry,” I manage at last. “He was vindictive. When he got into fights with Tomás, he wouldn’t take it out on him. He’d take it out on the people close to you.”
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Chapter 17
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“Do you think it would’ve made any difference if I stayed with Ty?”
Chris winces. “No. I don’t think there’s anything any of us could have done.”
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Chapter 21
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There are so many people here, and Chris is by my side, but I have never felt more alone. I wish my parents were here, but at the same time I’m not ready to face them.
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Claire Morgan Quotes in This Is Where It Ends
The This Is Where It Ends quotes below are all either spoken by Claire Morgan or refer to Claire Morgan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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It sounds glorious, but with months left until graduation, I have no clue what the future looks like. If Opportunity shaped me, I didn’t notice. Running, I know. This track, I know. One step after another after another. It doesn’t matter what comes next, as long as I keep moving forward.
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Chapter 2
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Before we broke up, Tyler told me the best part of high school was getting out ASAP. Still, I wish it didn’t have to end yet. It’ll be hard to say good-bye to our team, to our cadets, to each other. Life will be grayer without seeing Chris all day, every day.
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Chapter 6
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I smiled sadly, not wanting to deny him his dream. Almost everyone in our class talked about leaving Opportunity, but even though Ty wasn’t happy here, he never did. Sometimes it felt as if he and I walked the same road, but each of us was going in a different direction.
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Chapter 8
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“Ty wasn’t just angry,” I manage at last. “He was vindictive. When he got into fights with Tomás, he wouldn’t take it out on him. He’d take it out on the people close to you.”
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Chapter 17
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“Do you think it would’ve made any difference if I stayed with Ty?”
Chris winces. “No. I don’t think there’s anything any of us could have done.”
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Chapter 21
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There are so many people here, and Chris is by my side, but I have never felt more alone. I wish my parents were here, but at the same time I’m not ready to face them.
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