Top 40 Sally Green Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s amazing to see the beauty of the world. It’s so beautiful and so brutal. It’s a reminder that every second of life is precious.”

— Sally Green

2. “El truco es que no te importe. Que no te importe que te duela, que no te importe nada. El truco de que no te importe es clave...”

— Sally Green

3. “I thought that exile meant you had to leave your country and you could go anywhere – somewhere in the sun, a tropical island, say, or America. But exile doesn’t mean that; it means you are banished to a specific place, and guess what, that place isn’t in the sun and is no paradise, it’s not even America. It’s some cold, miserable place like Siberia, where you don’t know anyone and you can barely survive. It’s another prison.”

— Sally Green

4. “The trick is to not mind. Not mind about it hurting, not mind about anything. The trick of not minding is key; it’s the only trick in town. Only this is not a town; it’s a cage beside a cottage, surrounded by a load of hills and trees and sky. It’s a one-trick cage.”

— Sally Green

5. “I’m tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you.”

— Sally Green

6. “Tengo tantas ganas de verla que duele.”

— Sally Green

7. “Is he a psychopath? I don’t know. I don’t know what the definition is. Don’t know how far down the path of eating people you have to go before you officially become a psycho.”

— Sally Green

8. “Gabriel.′ I’m so close to him our lips are almost touching, and then I move closer so our lips are touching as I say his name again. It’s like a kiss but it’s not really a kiss. And it’s nice and I want more. I move my lips without saying his name, still barely touching, then closer, caressing his lips with mine. And he kisses me.”

— Sally Green

9. “Wounded, not lost.”

— Sally Green

10. “I’ve killed fifty-two people. But really all I want is to get my hands on her. I’d be happy with fifty-three. Just one more and I’ll be satisfied.”

— Sally Green

11. “Wild is an interesting word. We imagine wild to be untamed and out of control but, of course, nature isn’t like that; nature is controlled, ordered, extremely disciplined by all its elements.”

— Sally Green

12. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Hamlet, William Shakespeare.”

— Sally Green

13. “Nice basket too. You can never have too many baskets, I’ve found.” She studies the basket, turning it round. “If you learn nothing else today, at least remember that.”

— Sally Green

14. “I always thought a person’s Gift reflected something about that person and all I can think is that my Gift reflects my desires, and my desires are to be totally wild, totally free.”

— Sally Green

15. “I’m not a hero but I can end the war.”

— Sally Green

16. “Sometimes I think you’re still a prisoner. You’re not free of this place in your head, Nathan. And you’re definitely not free of those people. They haunt you.”

— Sally Green

17. “Her skin is soft and skin-colored – not dirt-colored.”

— Sally Green

18. “I’m smiling. I’m supposed to be a Black Witch and I’m smiling like a little kid.”

— Sally Green

19. “Later I wake and he’s asleep and I move over him gently to kiss across his chest and listen to his slow heartbeat, and I want to stay there, listening to his heart. I feel strange. I can’t remember ever feeling like this. I think I’m sort of happy.”

— Sally Green

20. “You wound me in other ways, Nathan.”

— Sally Green

21. “A year ago I was being kept in this cell and I didn’t want to kill anyone, not even the people who held me prisoner. I just wanted to escape, just wanted freedom. And now I have that; I have my freedom.”

— Sally Green

22. “I want to be a Half Code. I want to be Black and White, the best of both.”

— Sally Green

23. “The new trick is to stay in the present... Get lost in the detail of it... Enjoy it!”

— Sally Green

24. “You have the power to fight. You do what other people can’t do.”

— Sally Green

25. “It’s easier to stay positive with your eyes open.”

— Sally Green

26. “If I have friends how come I always feel alone?”

— Sally Green

27. “People are always dying. Its a terrible habit they have and nothing you can do will change that.”

— Sally Green

28. “But the more store you set in visions the more they have a habit of coming true.”

— Sally Green

29. “He says, “You know I love you. Still. Forever”.”

— Sally Green

30. “Later I remember what I could do. It’s easy. I could kill them all.”

— Sally Green

31. “Nathan, the half Black Witch, half White Witch? I was never sure he really existed.”

— Sally Green

32. “The point of being good is doing it when it’s tough, not when it’s easy.”

— Sally Green

33. “But I do what I have wanted to do forever, and take her hand and kiss it.”

— Sally Green

34. “Finally, the day of our meeting crawls into the light and then takes a year to drag itself to the afternoon.”

— Sally Green

35. “Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.”

— Sally Green

36. “If you fight then I fight too.”

— Sally Green

37. “Herido, pero no perdido.”

— Sally Green

38. “I can’t not be with you, Nathan. I wanted to leave you in that grave and walk away but I couldn’t. I can’t walk ten paces away from you without it hurting me. I treasure every second with you. Every second. More than you know.”

— Sally Green

39. “And yet I want to be human; I want to be thinking of him because then I feel he is alive somewhere, if only in my head.”

— Sally Green

40. “I was wounded, not lost.”

— Sally Green