Alison Wisdom > Quotes

“Sometimes the darkness wins. It creeps in like a thick, gray fog, covering everything as we stumble around, and when it finally lifts, we see what it has done, what it has taken from us and what it has left behind.”
― Alison Wisdom, We Can Only Save Ourselves

“We take pains, always, to assure our children of their safety; we remind them we will protect them. But we cannot control the way the earth moves, and a reality of living here, one we exchange for a beautiful home: sometimes the earth revolts. The sea churns with anger, cliffs crumble. The ground shakes, it splits open. It isn’t often—only enough to remind us everything has cracks, everything can break.”
― Alison Wisdom, We Can Only Save Ourselves

“It is a wonderful thing to know and to be known.”
― Alison Wisdom, We Can Only Save Ourselves

“We know bad things happen in the world, that they always have, that they’ll continue to do so. We also know that we can’t stop them, and this knowledge is almost worse than the bad things themselves.”
― Alison Wisdom, We Can Only Save Ourselves

“Out there is a wilderness we just cannot tame. We can’t take care of the whole world, after all. We can only save ourselves.”
― Alison Wisdom, We Can Only Save Ourselves

“He was like the sheer face of a cliff or the ocean, something vast. She could see nothing else.”
― Alison Wisdom, We Can Only Save Ourselves

“Is there not a good-bye implied in every greeting?”
― Alison Wisdom, We Can Only Save Ourselves

“We can’t save everything. To tell the truth, we don’t want to.”
― Alison Wisdom, We Can Only Save Ourselves

“If you were listening, people almost always told you what answer they were looking for.”
― Alison Wisdom, We Can Only Save Ourselves