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Kim Liggett QUOTES

1 " That’s the problem with letting the light in—after it’s been taken away from you, it feels even darker than it was before.
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― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

2 " You eyes are wide open, but you see nothing. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

3 " That's the problem with letting the light in-after it's been taken away from you, it feels even darker than it was before "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

4 " When you’re eating your supper, you can look down at your plate and say, my, that’s a fine-looking carrot, and you’ll think of me.”

“I don’t want to think of you when I look at a damn carrot. "

― Kim Liggett ,

5 " I used to think that was my magic-having the power to see things others couldn't-things they didn't even want to admit to themselves. But all you have to do is open your eyes. My eyes are wide open "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

6 " My father always told me that a person is made up of all the little choices they make in life. The choices no one ever sees. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

7 " Sometimes I feel like we might burn down the world to cindery bits, with our love, our rage, and everything in between. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

8 " I’m trying to hold back my emotions, but I can feel my face contorting. That strange heat moving to my cheeks. I always thought it was magic moving through me, but now I know it to be rage. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

9 " In the county, there’s nothing more dangerous than a woman who speaks her mind. That’s what happened to Eve, you know, why we were cast out from heaven. We’re dangerous creatures. Full of devil charms. If given the opportunity, we will use our magic to lure men to sin, to evil, to destruction.” My eyes are getting heavy, too heavy to roll in a dramatic fashion. “That’s why they send us here.”
“To rid yourself of your magic,” he says.
“No,” I whisper as I drift off to sleep. “To break us. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

10 " Heaven is a boy in a treehouse, with cold hands and a warm heart. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

11 " It feels like freedom, but we know it's a lie. This is how they break us. They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

12 " But a flower is never just a flower. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

13 " A person is made up of all the little choices they make in life. The choices no one ever sees. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

14 " The things we do to girls. Whether we put them on pedestals only to tear them down, or use them for parts and holes, we're all complicit in this. But everything touches everything else, and I have to believe that some good will come out of all this destruction. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

15 " She's so incredibly grateful, but she shouldn't have to feel grateful for this-for being treated like a basic human being. None of us should. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

16 " I shadowed my father a million times before, watching him sneak off to the outskirts, but it never occurred to me to follow my mother—that she would have a life of her own. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

17 " A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze. —MARGARET ATWOOD, THE HANDMAID’S TALE "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

18 " I feel dead inside. But maybe that's exactly what I need to get through this. "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

19 " I think growing up is one very long grace year. I mean it's brutal for girls, right? We place this impossible set of standards on them, and project all of our fear and desire on them, and when they falter, they're entirely to blame.

--An Interview with the Author at the end of the book "

― Kim Liggett , The Grace Year

20 " THEY SAY THE FIRST STEP is the hardest. But it’s really the third—when you’re too far in to turn back and not far enough to completely commit. "

― Kim Liggett , Blood and Salt (Blood and Salt, #1)