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A Far Wilder Magic QUOTES

A Far Wilder Magic 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 " 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

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

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

7 " 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

8 " 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

9 " 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

10 " 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

11 " All he has is a dream of a better world where they could be happy together. But that’s all it is. A stupid dream. An empty promise, just like she said. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

12 " Then he will give her something solid to hold on to. If he can convince her of one thing in his life, let it be this: A life beyond that house, beyond all the ghosts that haunt it, is a dream worth believing in. One worth trying for. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

13 " Weston, with his foppish hair and calculating smile, wouldn’t last two minutes against her mother. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

14 " She can understand the complicated feelings that come from forsaking your heritage. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

15 " This place has the same solemnity as a closed-down fair. To him, home is a loud, cramped place, warm with bodies and stove heat and love. But Welty Manor is none of these things. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

16 " Even if Wes has experienced the same kind of rejection she has, even if she wanted to confide in him, what would she say? She has hidden behind too many locked doors to know how to open them anymore "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

17 " Everyone promised him that rural New Albion would be as cozy as a knit blanket, the people warmer than in the city and their bonds thicker. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

18 " Have you been before?”
“No,” she says, almost dreamily. “I’d love to, though. All the lights and music and people… It sounds magical. I feel like you could be anyone and anything you wanted.”
How sweet. He wishes he could live in her romantic version of his home. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic

19 " Wes awakens to the sharp pain of his forehead smacking into cold glass. "

― Allison Saft , A Far Wilder Magic