Being Saved Quotes

“I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“There are two most important things in the world - being in danger, and being saved.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“At my most precarious, I balanced on a book, and the books rafted me over the tides of feelings that left me soaked and shattered.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.”
― James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

“like that
only love saves us at last from the grip
of the worst danger we know of:
to be only–and nothing else—ourselves.”
― Javier Velaza

“And if nothing will free us from death
at least love will save us from life.”
― Javier Velaza

“They say Scheherazade saved all women with storytelling

I can’t even save myself before sunrise

I feel like I’m down
there with him
pushing against
what hurts most”
― Mona Kareem

“Our friend from Turkey says language is so delicate he likens it to a darling.

We will take this word in our arms.
It will be small and breathing.
We will not wish to scare it.
Pressing lips to the edge of each syllable.
Nothing else will save us now.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

“Precious South,
must I save you

or myself?”
― Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead

“She could call the number the National Guard had posted around, see if they would come. She already knew they couldn't really do anything. Who was going to help them? Who was here for Detroit?

This was the conundrum--to be of a city that didn't want to be saved and didn't want to be abandoned.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Grievers