Top 70 Kim Liggett Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Heaven is a boy in a treehouse, with cold hands and a warm heart.”

— Kim Liggett

2. “It feels like freedom, but we know it’s a lie. This is how they break us. They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift.”

— Kim Liggett

3. “My father always told me that a person is made up of all the little choices they make in life. The choices no one ever sees.”

— Kim Liggett

4. “You eyes are wide open, but you see nothing.”

— Kim Liggett

5. “Maybe the reason no one speaks of the grace year is because of us. How could the men live among us, lie with us, let us care for their children, knowing the horrors we inflict upon one another... alone... in the wilderness... in the dark?”

— Kim Liggett

6. “I feel dead inside. But maybe that’s exactly what I need to get through this.”

— Kim Liggett

7. “What sins? The sin of being born a girl?”

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8. “That’s the problem with letting the light in – after it’s been taken away from you, it feels even darker than it was before” -Tierney.”

— Kim Liggett

9. “Life can be cruel. No one is immune to that, no matter how good you are.”

— Kim Liggett

10. “But a flower is never just a flower.”

— Kim Liggett

11. “She’s so incredibly grateful, but she shouldn’t have to feel grateful for this-for being treated like a basic human being. None of us should.”

— Kim Liggett

12. “I want to see you with your hair down, with the sun on your face.”

— Kim Liggett

13. “I’m trying to hold back my emotions, but I can feel my face contorting. That strange heat moving to my cheeks. I always thought it was magic moving through me, but now I know it to be rage.”

— Kim Liggett

14. “It’s good to be afraid,” I said. “It means you still have something to live for.”

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15. “As I was saying, there’s so much to consider when giving a veil. Is she pleasant? Compliant? Will she bear sons? Is she hardy enough to survive the grace year? I don’t envy the men. It’s a heavy day, indeed.”

— Kim Liggett

16. “The magic is real. Maybe not in the way they believe, but if you’re willing to open your eyes, open your heart, it’s all around us, inside us, waiting to be recognized.”

— Kim Liggett

17. “What at first seemed like harmless tasks turned into something infinitely more dangerous. But isn’t that how every horrible thing but it begins? Slow. Insipid. A twisting of the screw.”

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18. “Being married off isn’t a privilege to me. There’s no freedom in comfort. They’re padded shackles, to be sure, but shackles nonetheless.”

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19. “There’s one person who desperately needs it, though, someone I’m completely in control of – myself. I did the best I could with what I’d been given. I stuck to my beliefs. I survived against all odds. I fell in love and gave my heart freely, knowing that it would be broken. I can’t regret the choices I’ve made, and so I must accept them.”

— Kim Liggett

20. “My father always told me that a person is made up of all the little choices they make in life. The choices no one ever sees. I may not be in control of much, like who I marry, the children I’ll bear, but I have control over this moment. And I’m not going to waste it.”

— Kim Liggett

21. “The open water, the breeze, the unobstructed sun glaring down on us – it feels like freedom, but we know it’s a lie. This is how they break us. They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift.”

— Kim Liggett

22. “We’re not allowed to dream. The men believe it’s a way we can hide our magic. Having dreams would be enough to get me punished, but if anyone ever found out what the dreams were about, it would mean the gallows.”

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23. “We’re dangerous creatures. Full of devil charms. If given the opportunity, we will use our magic to lure men to sin, to evil, to destruction.” My eyes are getting heavy, too heavy to roll in a dramatic fashion. “That’s why they send us here.” “To rid yourself of your magic,” he says. “No,” I whisper as I drift off to sleep. “To break us.”

— Kim Liggett

24. “It’s easy to think of your life as being meaningless out here, a tiny forgotten imprint that can easily be washed away by the next passing storm, but instead of making me feel small, it gives everything more purpose, more meaning. I’m no more or less important than a small seedling trying to burst through the soil. We all play a part on this earth. And however small, I intend to play mine.”

— Kim Liggett

25. “The winter that came in like a lion has gone out like a lamb.”

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26. “My father always told me that it’s the small decisions you make when no one is watching that make you who you are.”

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27. “I want to believe we can be different, but when I look around the church, at the women comparing the length of their braids, reveling in another woman’s punishment, scheming and clawing for every inch of position, I can’t help thinking the men might be right. Maybe we’re incapable of more. Maybe without the confines placed upon us, we’d rip each other to shreds, like a pack of outskirt dogs.”

— Kim Liggett

28. “Sometimes I wonder if I’m so accustomed to struggling that anything else feels foreign to me, like something I’m not supposed to feel, but here we are.”

— Kim Liggett

29. “When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in – blood and salt.”

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30. “Hope,” I whisper, my eyes welling up. I don’t hope for a flower from a boy, but I hope for a better life. A truthful life. I’m not usually sentimental, but there’s something about it that feels like a sign. Like its own kind of magic.”

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31. “Veiled or not, depraved or saints, we’re all equals in death.”

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32. “The women aren’t allowed to own pets in the county. We are the pets.”

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33. “This is the one night a year the women are allowed to congregate without the men. You’d think it would be our opportunity to talk, share, let it all out. Instead, we stand isolated and petty, sizing each other up, jealous for what the other one has, consumed by hollow desires. And who benefits from all this one-uppery? The men. We outnumber them two to one, and yet here we are, locked in a chapel, waiting for them to decide our fate.”

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34. “Or Amy Dumont. Delicate, sweet. She would make for a docile wife, but her hips are too narrow, beddable to be sure, but not sturdy enough to withstand childbirth. Of course, some men like breakable things. They like to break them.”

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35. “I used to think that was my magic – having the power to see things others couldn’t – things they didn’t even want to admit to themselves. But all you have to do is open your eyes. My eyes are wide open.”

— Kim Liggett

36. “Michael leans in to kiss my cheek. “You can keep your dreams,” he whispers. “But I dream only of you.”

— Kim Liggett

37. “There are times when it feels unfathomable that life is continuing elsewhere.”

— Kim Liggett

38. “The only thing worse than being old in Garner County is being barren.”

— Kim Liggett

39. “Someday, you’ll get a flower. It might be a little withered round the edges, but it’ll mean the same.”

— Kim Liggett

40. “When our choices are taken from us, the fire builds within. Sometimes I feel like we might burn down the world to cindery bits, with out love, our rage, and everything in between” -Tierney.”

— Kim Liggett

41. “How do you say good-bye to your childhood?”

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42. “Because isn’t that the biggest sin of all for a woman?” she says, twirling a sunlit curl around her finger. “Not to be of use.”

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43. “She stares at me intently, a haunted look coming over her. “Can we ever really heal from this?” she whispers.”

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44. “He can tell himself he’s only trying to protect me, but there will always be something in him that wants to contain me, hide me from the world.”

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45. “To be at odds with your nature, what everyone expects from you, is a life of constant struggle.”

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46. “I didn’t even like changing clothes for gym. Being bathed by a creepy cult was not on my favorite-things-to-do-list.”

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47. “I promised myself I would keep my feet firmly rooted in the soil, that I wouldn’t give in to superstition and flights of fancy, so why am I trembling?”

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48. “Santas o depravadas, todas somos iguales ante la muerte.”

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49. “There’s a part of me that should feel satisfied – Kiersten’s finally getting what she deserves – but I only feel tired. Tired of hating each other. Tired of feeling small. Tired of being used. Tired of men deciding our fate, and for what?”

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50. “Tommy will lift my veil expecting an eagle, and I will give him a dove. But I won’t be a broken bird. Not for anyone.”

— Kim Liggett