Allegra Huston > Quotes

“But all that wanting -you dont hear the noise of your engine. Until you switch it off, and then it's peaceful. And all that time you had no idea how loud it was.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“A plan is an absurdity. The future cannot be commanded like a square of soldiers.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“Do you really think it's possible to have love without hurt?"
"I don't know. Is it possible to lvoe deeple and choose not to feel the pain?Hell, it's worth a try. Because if you don't, what hapens? You end up wrecking what's beautiful”
― Allegra Huston

“Do you really think it's possible to have love without hurt?"
"I don't know. Is it possible to lvoe deeple and choose not to feel the pain?Hell, it's worth a try. Because if you don't, what hapens? You end up wrecking what's beautiful”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“Never gamble with other people’s money,” he said to me the next day, as if I should have known it. “If you lose, you’ll be in debt to them. If you win, you’ll feel you’re owed something, but it’s their choice whether to share the winnings with you—and how much. It’s a position no woman should put herself in.”
― Allegra Huston, Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found

“Do I need someone to be of use to, in order to justify my existence? she wonders. Do I need someone to desire me, in order to feel alive? Do men ever think like this?”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“...Love everybody, but nobody in particular. The secret of happiness. But you have to earn it."
"With blood and tears?"
"No, my dear boy. Just with time. By aging, By paying your dues. You must have loved deeply and truly, at least once. Without an agenda, and absolutely without a list of things that need fixing.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“I believe it is scientifically proven that when atoms collide, which atoms do all the time, they leave an imprint on each other. Two shapes caused by the impact, which fit together-what a plumber would call male and female. And they're drawn back to that perfect fit. This, by the way, is possibly also the physics of love. And reincarnation.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“I feel like I'm an illusion of myself”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“Gloriously spacious. You stretch my heart.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“She feels the boundaries of her self expand, filling the space around her, leaving no lack, no gap where a man should be.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“She might share them again, with Micajah or with another man, but she doesn't yearn for it. This is a contentment she's never felt before. She recognises it as happiness.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“Do you really think it's possible to have love without hurt?"
"I don't know. Is it possible to love deeply and choose not to feel the pain? Hell, it's worth a try. Because if you don't, what happens? You end up wrecking what's beautiful”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“The world is round. Maybe we'll find each other on the other side.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“Recently she has begun to think, with the dispassion of a scientist observing a specimen, that she no longer knows what joy feels like— that sense of soaring delight in being alive that is more than mere happiness, which she came to define as merely the absence of sadness, so that she could occasionally claim it and keep her life on its tracks. If she had been asked, she would have said she was content, but now she recognizes that featureless condition for what it is: all sensation blurred into the same narcotic fog.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name

“Who wants to fall? So much better to climb into love.”
― Allegra Huston, Say My Name