Top 70 Kim Liggett Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Kim Liggett

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

— Kim Liggett

3. “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

4. “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

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

— Kim Liggett

6. “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

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

— Kim Liggett

8. “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

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

— Kim Liggett

10. “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

11. “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

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

— Kim Liggett

13. “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

14. “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.”

— Kim Liggett

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

— 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. “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

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

— Kim Liggett

19. “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

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

— Kim Liggett

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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.”

— Kim Liggett

24. “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

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

— Kim Liggett

26. “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.”

— Kim Liggett

27. “Just seeing the display makes me realize how much we’ve lost out here, but maybe we had to destroy everything in order for something to be born anew. From death there is life.”

— Kim Liggett

28. “We all have good and evil in our blood, what we do with it is up to us.”

— Kim Liggett

29. “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.”

— Kim Liggett

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

— Kim Liggett

31. “We hurt each other because it’s the only way we’re permitted to show our anger. 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 our love, our rage, and everything in between.”

— Kim Liggett

32. “The things we do to girls. Whether we put them on pedestals only to tear them down, or use them for parts and holes, we’re all complicit in this. But everything touches everything else, and I have to believe that some good will come out of all this destruction. The men will never end the grace year. But maybe we can.”

— Kim Liggett

33. “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

34. “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.”

— Kim Liggett

35. “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

36. “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

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

— Kim Liggett

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

— Kim Liggett

39. “We are the only Gods here.”

— Kim Liggett

40. “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.”

— Kim Liggett

41. “But who’s going to do the punishing?” Hannah asks. “At home, the punishers are men, chosen by God.” “Look around,” Kiersten says as she stares me dead in the eyes. “We are the only Gods here.”

— Kim Liggett

42. “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

43. “Legs spread, arms flat, eyes to God,” I whisper.”

— Kim Liggett

44. “All the other girls in my year will be wearing new dresses today with frills and embroidery, the latest style, but my parents knew better than to waste their resources on me. I have no prospects. I made damn sure of that.”

— Kim Liggett

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

— Kim Liggett

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

— Kim Liggett

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

— Kim Liggett

48. “We outnumber them two to one, and yet here we are, locked in a chapel, waiting for them to decide our fate. Sometimes I wonder if that’s the real magic trick.”

— Kim Liggett

49. “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

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

— Kim Liggett