Sophia Helling > Quotes

“We’re not perfect, Elora. We’re still people, and we’re eighteen trying to fix strains that were made generations before we were even born.”
― Sophia Helling, Uniters

“Yes, I wanted to be a hedgehog.”
― Sophia Helling, The Monster's Cave

“I don't think someone needs to apologize to be forgiven.”
― Sophia Helling, The Monster's Cave

“Bye bye birdies”
― Sophia Helling, Fighters

“It all depended on the person. She'd fought against the push to do so, and that couldn't have been easy. But who does she become when she has the choice? Who do any of us become?”
― Sophia Helling, Patience Tiger

“I can't wait." She whispered again, sounding more upset than ever. "There's going to come a time where I can't force staying here. I cannot let it happen that way.”
― Sophia Helling

“I wished I could give them some sense that they could still dream, that they still had a reason to dream and believe they could still do or be anything. They needed to know that they had futures. We all needed to know we had a future outside of this situation.”
― Sophia Helling, Patience Tiger

“I would always get close to my dreams, but never actually reach them. Over and over, I would leap, but never quite get high enough. I would continue until I reached an inhuman exhaustion, and then all I would be able to do is lie down and give up.”
― Sophia Helling, Uniters

“We could belong in places, but we could also belong with people.”
― Sophia Helling, Fighters

“It's not worth the energy to think about what could have been. It's much easier to think about what is.”
― Sophia Helling, Fighters

“It often feels like everyone disregards our capabilities just because we’re a little younger than others doing this kind of thing would usually be. I’m always looking for ways to be taken more seriously.”
― Sophia Helling, Uniters

“She couldn’t come in and assume the way she had left me before everything got fancier for her was still the same. People didn’t freeze in place until you needed them again.”
― Sophia Helling, Fighters

“the monsters cave is amaze and patience sheets tiger.”
― Sophia Helling, The Monster's Cave

“For this to work, it’s not just about placing some stones in The Centerfold. It’s about a lot more than that. It’s about being willing to look behind the past of all the regions and judging them because of a stereotype about where they came from.”
― Sophia Helling, Uniters

“Do you normally talk in riddles,” He finally asked, “or is that just something you do when you get caught?”
― Sophia Helling, Uniters

“I never wanted to get that letter. Mine was supposed to be thin. Not thick. Thick meant I would be losing every last bit of freedom I still had.”
― Sophia Helling, Fighters

“I still needed to see them again. Ghosts of a past life or not, they had once been real to me.”
― Sophia Helling, Patience Tiger