Top 50 Allison Saft Quotes (2025 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. “Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier’s uniform.”

— Allison Saft

4. “I’ve grown tired of being tired.”

— Allison Saft

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

— Allison Saft

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

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

— Allison Saft

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

— Allison Saft

11. “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

12. “Words fix nothing.”

— Allison Saft

13. “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

14. “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

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

— Allison Saft

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

— Allison Saft

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

— Allison Saft

18. “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

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

— Allison Saft

20. “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

21. “No matter what paltry justice this town levies, it won’t save their chances at winning, and it won’t make them safe. The hala isn’t the only monster in these woods. Humans are far worse. The hunt has never been for him and Margaret. It’s never been about protecting this town or about money or safety or glory. It’s not even about God. It’s about the poison at the heart of this country.”

— Allison Saft

22. “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.”

— Allison Saft

23. “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

24. “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?”

— Allison Saft

25. “How could Margaret ever think he’d lose himself to alchemy when he has already hopelessly lost himself to her?”

— Allison Saft

26. “Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive.”

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27. “Was it so terrible to need someone else? Was kindness such a horrible burden to endure?”

— Allison Saft

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

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29. “They’re the same height, nearly nose to nose. Wes decides this means she is tall rather than the alternative.”

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30. “You are not weak for grieving. For feeling anything.”

— Allison Saft

31. “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

32. “If he can’t grieve his father or his impossible dreams without hurting his family or himself, what other choice does he have but to keep things light? To dazzle people so they can’t look for the cracks? He’s survived this long by letting everyone believe he’s selfish and shallow. It’s better that way. No one knows how to hurt you if you always play the fool.”

— Allison Saft

33. “Una grinned at her, raw and unguarded and sad. It was the most beautiful thing Wren had ever seen.”

— Allison Saft

34. “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

35. “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

36. “I never said that. You assumed that. You assumed correctly, but that’s beside the point.”

— Allison Saft

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

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38. “Nothing was as simple as she wanted it to be.”

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39. “You’re even more delusional than I thought if you think you can save the world by conquering it.”

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

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

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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. “She hated that she cried when she was angry. It was another weakness, another reason why she wasn’t cut out to be a combat medic, another reason she was suspended.”

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

— Allison Saft

45. “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

46. “Compassion for its own sake isn’t worth punishing.”

— Allison Saft

47. “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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48. “Sparked in desperation and kept alive, secret and stifled. It was a hungry, selfish kind of love, never fully satisfied. A love that kept score. Something that flared painfully now and again, like a bone that had never set quite right.”

— Allison Saft

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

— Allison Saft

50. “How could someone so vibrant just be gone?”

— Allison Saft