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Allison Saft QUOTES

Allison Saft QUOTES

1 " Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive. Most days, that’s enough. Today, she doesn’t think it is. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

2 " If he can’t grieve his father or his impossible dreams without hurting his family or himself, what other choice does he have but to keep things light? To dazzle people so they can’t look for the cracks? He’s survived this long by letting everyone believe he’s selfish and shallow. It’s better that way. No one knows how to hurt you if you always play the fool. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

3 " No matter what paltry justice this town levies, it won’t save their chances at winning, and it won’t make them safe. The hala isn’t the only monster in these woods. Humans are far worse. The hunt has never been for him and Margaret. It’s never been about protecting this town or about money or safety or glory. It’s not even about God. It’s about the poison at the heart of this country. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

4 " How many times will she watch someone leave this place and never look back, while she is left here like a ghost to haunt it? "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

5 " You understand you've made a serious commitment, yes?" She wound her arms around his neck. "I might not let you go."

"A terrible fate, indeed, to be your prisoner."

When he kissed her again, she couldn't help smiling against hit mouth. "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

6 " Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier's uniform "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

7 " You are not weak for grieving. For feeling anything. "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

8 " It takes incredible strength to be kind in this world. To endure suffering instead of further it. "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

9 " Was it so terrible to need someone else? Was kindness such a horrible burden to endure? "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

10 " You're worth more than what you can do. "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

11 " When had love become a weapon with which to destroy each other? "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

12 " When she looks like this, flushed and hazy and haloed by the moon, he truly can believe God exists, and her name is Margaret Welty. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

13 " Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

14 " You're even more delusional than I thought if you think you can save the world by conquering it. "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

15 " If any feeling would kill her, it was this one. She was in love with Hal Cavendish, and he would never know it. "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

16 " In the dim porchlight, she looks like something out of a poem he read in school before he dropped out. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

17 " No one knows how to hurt you if you always play the fool. No one can be truly disappointed in you if they don’t expect any better. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

18 " I saw it the moment I laid eyes on him. He looks at the world like he wants to swallow it whole. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

19 " Justice got us here. Justice will kill us all."
"So what do you propose instead?'
"Forgiveness. "

― Allison Saft , Down Comes the Night

20 " She could learn how to make the sting of abandonment fade into numbness. She could learn to detach until it felt like she wasn’t real at all. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic