Top 90 Allison Saft Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “There are punishments far worse than being struck. To be forsaken and unloved – that is the worst fate of all.”

— Allison Saft

2. “It takes incredible strength to be kind in this world. To endure suffering instead of further it.”

— Allison Saft

3. “But if lust is so perverse, why would God make girls.”

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4. “Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier’s uniform.”

— Allison Saft

5. “I’ve grown tired of being tired.”

— Allison Saft

6. “You will find your path here, even if it is not the one you imagined.”

— Allison Saft

7. “A terrible fate, indeed, to be your prisoner.”

— Allison Saft

8. “What’s done is done. What-ifs will only tear you apart.”

— Allison Saft

9. “Weston, with his foppish hair and calculating smile, wouldn’t last two minutes against her mother.”

— Allison Saft

10. “Despite her best efforts, he’d changed her, smeared all her black-and-white beliefs into gray. Now she’d carry him with her forever, a bright, tender flame to keep safe.”

— Allison Saft

11. “When had love become a weapon with which to destroy each other?”

— Allison Saft

12. “This place has the same solemnity as a closed-down fair. To him, home is a loud, cramped place, warm with bodies and stove heat and love. But Welty Manor is none of these things.”

— Allison Saft

13. “Everyone promised him that rural New Albion would be as cozy as a knit blanket, the people warmer than in the city and their bonds thicker.”

— Allison Saft

14. “I don’t think I can bear any more death.”

— Allison Saft

15. “Even if Wes has experienced the same kind of rejection she has, even if she wanted to confide in him, what would she say? She has hidden behind too many locked doors to know how to open them anymore.”

— Allison Saft

16. “You’re worth more than what you can do.”

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17. “She can understand the complicated feelings that come from forsaking your heritage.”

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18. “It’s only now that he has her attention that he realizes how badly he wanted it. He wants so many things from her right now. More than anything, he wants to see her smile.”

— Allison Saft

19. “His searching gaze singed her face like a brand. She tried to ignore it, but two impulses, don’t look and look, warred for dominance. Fear drove the first, curiosity – and indignation – the second.”

— Allison Saft

20. “Goddess above, Hal, they’re labeled. It’s the one that says antidote for Hal on it.”

— Allison Saft

21. “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.”

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22. “It would be so easy to simply... quit.”

— Allison Saft

23. “Words fix nothing.”

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24. “If any feeling would kill her, it was this one. She was in love with Hal Cavendish, and he would never know it.”

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25. “Be angry if you must,” he said, “but I can’t lose you.”

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26. “You’re suggesting I stop thinking so much?”

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27. “Was it worse for a murderer to hide behind the uniform of a soldier or a gentleman?”

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28. “I don’t regret what I’ve done, nor do I blame you for what happened. I’d do it again if given the opportunity.”

— Allison Saft

29. “He wants so much more than he has allowed himself to imagine. He wants her, desperately and entirely. But for now, with her safe and whole against him, it’s enough.”

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30. “There is so much to do in this one glorious life we were gifted.”

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31. “It amazed her how a place could carry both such joyful and painful memories. But she wanted to remember Winter like this: a friend, holding its companionate silence with her.”

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32. “The air thickened with the too-familiar stench of old blood: saltwater and rust and sugar gone bad.”

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33. “Little in the world, made her happier than making other people happy.”

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34. “She loved him. Perhaps she was always bound to, from the very moment she saw him standing on the border. How could she not? She loved his steadfastness, his kindness, even his reckless, selfless bravery. She loved his wry humor and his unshakable devotion to his people. She loved him because he had set her free, too. And yet, he had broken her heart.”

— Allison Saft

35. “Both of us were caught up in our own things. I know it’s going to take some time to figure out how to fit into each other’s lives once you’re queen. But I’m not going anywhere.”

— Allison Saft

36. “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?”

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37. “If you cannot be loved, she’d said, you must be indispensable.”

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38. “Hatred would choke out logic like a weed.”

— Allison Saft

39. “He bent down and kissed her. It was as fierce as a promise, more binding than a treaty.”

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40. “Love is not the sharp-edged thing she’s always believed it to be. It’s not like the sea, liable to slip through her fingers if she holds on too tight. It’s not a currency, something to be earned or denied or bartered for. Love can be steadfast. It can be certain and safe, or as wild as an open flame. It’s a slice of buttered bread at dinner table. It’s a grudge born of worry. It’s broken skin pulled over swollen knuckles.”

— Allison Saft

41. “If memory serves, queens aren’t born from just any star, but a star that a child has wished upon. Maybe dream-talent magic lives on in you – in all governing talents.”

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42. “In the dim porchlight, she looks like something out of a poem he read in school before he dropped out.”

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43. “Go,” Clarion whispered. “Please.” He looked stricken. “I can’t.” He knelt at her bedside. “Not yet.”

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44. “It hurt watching her smother herself. How many times had she done the same thing? Apologized for her own sadness, for daring to burden someone else with her feelings?”

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45. “She had always believed life was what slipped through her fingers while she was idle. That life was something she wasted, not something she had. But now, she understood how wrong she’d been. Her heart beat. Her lungs swelled with air. Life was here, right in front of her.”

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46. “You have to choose your own happiness, whatever that looks like. You can’t live your life for other people.”

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47. “Lorelei knew what it was like when your mind was still fighting its own wars, one that had ended long ago for everyone else.”

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48. “I saw it the moment I laid eyes on him. He looks at the world like he wants to swallow it whole.”

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49. “The sound he made was one of a man either absolved or damned.”

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50. “Niamh had spent all of her life sorry for taking up space, guilty for inconveniencing anyone with her emotions or needs.”

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