Allison Saft > Quotes

“It was strangely comforting— and strangely beautiful, to be known without having to speak a word.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“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

“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

“Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier's uniform”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Clarion." He said her name like a plea. "Weighed against your life, they are nothing to me. I would make that trade every time.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“It takes incredible strength to be kind in this world. To endure suffering instead of further it.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“For those who see the world as it could be: brighter and full of magic”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“Milori tipped her chin up so that he could meet her gaze. “You will have all your subjects to love you. And even if I am not beside you, you will still have me. There will never be a star brighter. I will always love you.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“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

“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

“You are not weak for grieving. For feeling anything.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“I have no desire to twist myself into knots to please people I don't even respect.”
― Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

“She loved him. Perhaps she was always bound to, from the very moment she saw him standing on the border. How could she not? She loved his steadfastness, his kindness, even his reckless, selfless bravery. She loved his wry humor and his unshakable devotion to his people. She loved him because he had set her free, too. And yet, he had broken her heart.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“Be angry if you must," he said, "but I can't lose you.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“Was it so terrible to need someone else? Was kindness such a horrible burden to endure?”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“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

“You're worth more than what you can do.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“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

“When things seem impossibly dark, bulb flowers are sparks of hope. It takes time for things to bloom. You just have to be patient
and nurturing. So be nice to yourself. You’ll grow into it, I promise.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“When had love become a weapon with which to destroy each other?”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“You have to choose your own happiness, whatever that looks like. You can’t live your life for other people.”
― Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

“It amazed her how a place could carry both such joyful and painful memories. But she wanted to remember Winter like this: a friend, holding its companionate silence with her.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“The stars overhead glittered brighter. Wonder filled Milori’s expression as their light danced on the snow fluttering around them. When his gaze found hers again, she could not remember how to draw breath. How beautiful, to see the exact moment he fell in love with her. Perhaps he had always loved her, on some level, ever since that night he allowed himself to hope again.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“Tell me," She said. "Do you still think me cruel? Would you like to see the depths of it?”
― Allison Saft, A Dark and Drowning Tide

“For a moment, the two of them lay side by side like a couple of stargazers. Slowly, Clarion splayed her fingers out across his chest and propped herself up to peer down at him. His hair pooled around him, a spill of white against the muted blue of the ice.

For just a little longer, she wanted to stay here, where nothing existed but the two of them.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“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

“We all die. You and I are dying right now, but we are also alive. Love is what makes life worth living. Love is what makes us act when we most need to. That's what your legacy is. Its how you love the people around you, not how much you've sacrificed for them”
― Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

“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

“I do not think I’ve been subtle about it, but I feel I should tell you that I like you, too.” Clarion couldn’t help laughing, even through the threat of tears constricting her throat. She leaned her forehead against his shoulder, if only to hide how much his words had affected her. She supposed she had known for quite some time how he felt, but to hear him admit it aloud . . . It made *this*— whatever it was— real: something she could lose.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“How could she ever teach new arrivals to fly? How could she dare to unfurl their wings with the tenderness they deserved when she would always remember the ones she had broken?”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight