“Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier's uniform”
―
Allison Saft,
Down Comes the Night
“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
“It takes incredible strength to be kind in this world. To endure suffering instead of further it.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“You are not weak for grieving. For feeling anything.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“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're worth more than what you can do.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“When had love become a weapon with which to destroy each other?” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“Was it so terrible to need someone else? Was kindness such a horrible burden to endure?” ― 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
“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
“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
“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
“If any feeling would kill her, it was this one. She was in love with Hal Cavendish, and he would never know it.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“Justice got us here. Justice will kill us all.""So what do you propose instead?'"Forgiveness.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive.” ― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic
“You're even more delusional than I thought if you think you can save the world by conquering it.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“All he has is a dream of a better world where they could be happy together. But that’s all it is. A stupid dream. An empty promise, just like she said.” ― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic
“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
“It takes incredible strength to be kind in this world. To endure suffering instead of further it.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“You are not weak for grieving. For feeling anything.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“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're worth more than what you can do.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“When had love become a weapon with which to destroy each other?” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“Was it so terrible to need someone else? Was kindness such a horrible burden to endure?” ― 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
“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
“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
“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
“If any feeling would kill her, it was this one. She was in love with Hal Cavendish, and he would never know it.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“Justice got us here. Justice will kill us all.""So what do you propose instead?'"Forgiveness.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive.” ― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic
“You're even more delusional than I thought if you think you can save the world by conquering it.” ― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night
“All he has is a dream of a better world where they could be happy together. But that’s all it is. A stupid dream. An empty promise, just like she said.” ― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic
