Top 90 Allison Saft Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “You’re like a pint-sized hurricane of earnestness and good cheer.”

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52. “You’ve acted the part of a villain so well, you’ve gone and convinced yourself it’s who you truly are.”

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53. “I love you too.” He said miserably.”

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54. “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

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

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56. “You don’t need to work yourself to the bone. You don’t need to do things for people before you ever think to do a thing for yourself. Whatever you think you have to prove or earn, it’s all in your head. Your existence alone is enough. And if you believe you’ve made no difference at all to anyone, you’re even more clueless than I thought.”

— Allison Saft

57. “Tell me,” She said. “Do you still think me cruel? Would you like to see the depths of it?”

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

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59. “All of them where haunted women. Violence had broken and reforged them, and the sharp edges it left behind made them dangerous.”

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60. “For those with impossible dreams and for those who feel dreaming is impossible. There is so much waiting for you on the horizon.”

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61. “Through the clamor and seething of battle, she found her true north: Milori.”

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62. “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.”

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63. “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

64. “But for someone in need, she could always find something to spare. – there was always more of herself to give.”

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

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66. “From the warm, secluded safety of her bedroom, there was something so peaceful about it – and so lonely. Just like her.”

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67. “Wes awakens to the sharp pain of his forehead smacking into cold glass.”

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68. “We all die. You and I are dying right now, but we are also alive. Love is what makes life worth living. Love is what makes us act when we most need to. That’s what your legacy is. Its how you love the people around you, not how much you’ve sacrificed for them.”

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69. “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.”

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70. “She’s worth protecting.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “Clarion.” He said her name like a plea. “Weighed against your life, they are nothing to me. I would make that trade every time.”

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73. “He was gazing at her like she was something to marvel at. His expression went soft and unguarded when he noticed her staring back at him, as though he hadn’t expected to be caught but did not mind it overmuch. There was no mistaking the wide-open yearning in his eyes. He had looked at her like this once before, she realized: the very first time she’d crossed into Winter. She wondered exactly how long he had wanted to kiss her – and felt very foolish, indeed, for being so oblivious.”

— Allison Saft

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

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

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76. “Perhaps it would have been better to pine than to mourn.”

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77. “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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78. “This close, she was struck by the true color of his eyes: a stormy gray, with the faintest touch of glacial blue. She could see his expression softening as he gazed back at her, and – She was still holding his hand.”

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79. “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.”

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

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81. “How could she ever teach new arrivals to fly? How could she dare to unfurl their wings with the tenderness they deserved when she would always remember the ones she had broken?”

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

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83. “Weighed against your life, they are nothing to me. I would make that trade every time.”

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84. “I have no desire to twist myself into knots to please people I don’t even respect.”

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85. “Lorelei had well and truly lost her mind to even consider following. And yet, somewhere deep down, she knew she’d never had a chance at remaining sensible when it came to Sylvia con Wolff. She’d already lost her heart. What was one more thing?”

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86. “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.”

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

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88. “Anger, at least, was a balm to the rawness of her grief. But she was too tired to sharpen it into a blade, so she wound it around herself like amor.”

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

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90. “Maggie Welty looks like the kind of girl who would sooner kill a man than admire one.”

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91. “You may be the only good thing I’ve ever wanted.”

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

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93. “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.”

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94. “The stars overhead glittered brighter. Wonder filled Milori’s expression as their light danced on the snow fluttering around them. When his gaze found hers again, she could not remember how to draw breath. How beautiful, to see the exact moment he fell in love with her. Perhaps he had always loved her, on some level, ever since that night he allowed himself to hope again.”

— Allison Saft

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

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96. “I can’t cut off any more pieces of myself. I’m nearly bled dry.”

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