Top 70 Sara Wolf Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Horror. Horrible. The things people do these days to disrespect the dead are just awful. So we’re going to respect my dead friend properly.” “By stuffing the chimney full of fireworks.” “By stuffing the chimney full of fireworks!” She agrees.”

— Sara Wolf

2. “Listen to me carefully, sweet girl. Don’t live any other way than the way that makes you happy. If you aren’t happy, leave your lover. If you aren’t happy, quit the job. If you aren’t happy, do more to make yourself happy. Because you are the only one who can make yourself happy.”

— Sara Wolf

3. “When things get hard, people leave.”

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4. “People love to say Heartless aren’t human. But to this day, I still wonder if they’re perhaps more human than the humans themselves.”

— Sara Wolf

5. “I smile at myself in the mirror – I look different. Prettier. Maybe Nameless was wrong. Maybe I am pretty. The door to my room opens just then, and I’m frozen in the headlights that are Mom’s eyes. She looks me up and down, and immediately shakes her head. “Oh, honey, that doesn’t suit you at all.” The air punches out of me again, but this time in a deeper way. A more final way.”

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6. “Fight with everything you have, everything you are. Everything that is left of you – battle with it. Fight by the moonlight, the starlight, whatever faded hope you can find at any moment – cling to it. Embrace the smallest of lights, and never stop fighting.”

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7. “I can’t let the emotion of fear submerge me. Drown me. The ocean is so big, so full of life, but I won’t drown in it. I can swim. I’ve learned to swim now.”

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8. “I never said it was an excuse... Simply that our pain breeds hate, and our hate makes us all do terrible things.”

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9. “I would love to slap you right now, but I’m currently wielding a nine pound ball and I’m afraid that would be called murder.”

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10. “Please – stay in my dreams at least.”

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11. “Because I’m strong. Because I’m Isis Blake, and she might not be pretty, or sweet, or well-mannered, but she’s very, very strong.”

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12. “Our pain breeds hate, and our hate makes us all do terrible things.”

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13. “I want you, Isis. Not as a friend. Not as an enemy. But as the most beautiful girl I’ve ever known.”

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14. “This world has seen enough suffering. I have seen enough suffering. And I do not wish it on anyone else.”

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15. “I’m not the princess, I’m the goddamn dragon, and you can’t seem to see that.”

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16. “It’s not a question of whether or not the apple falls far from the tree, because of course it doesn’t.” Her eyes fix in the distance. “It’s whether or not the apple can grow taller than the tree.”

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17. “I hate idiots. There’s a difference. It’s not my fault a great majority of them in this world happen to be male.”

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18. “Almosts, I’m starting to learn, are fuller of regret than absolutes – much sadder than certain yeses and nos. Yes and no mark ends and beginnings. But almosts cling, hovering on the boundary, never quite realized but still there.”

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19. “The world can rot, Lady Zera, if it means finding my daughter’s killer.”

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20. “On nights it was hard to be in the palace, I would stand outside the manor and watch the lights of your bedroom. The black rose bushes were always in my way. But over time, I began to feel a fondness for them. Seeing a black rose meant was near you, near the one person who understood me.”

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21. “I think Luc has some competition in marrying you.” Malachite smirks. “From Lord Grat, and now from several very infatuated ladies.”

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22. “Everyone in my life taught me to swim in the ocean of myself.”

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23. “They judge with their eyes alone. There is nothing wrong with you. There is something very wrong with them.”

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24. “Bad things happen, and you tell yourself that’s life, because you’ve lived a while and you know bad things happen, and they’ll keep happening, but you try to stay alive even after they do because you know it isn’t all bad, so you keep moving, keep going, try to put space between you and the bad things so you forget about them but they always catch up and then they sit on your back and make your back and make you trip while you try to move forward and it sucks.”

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25. “You are the sun, I try to say, You are the most important. You are the only light that’s ever truly pierced my armor. You are the happiness and the spark and the one girl who never ran, who never cowered, who saw through my facade. I will never meet another girl like you, I will never want anyone as much as I want you. I don’t deserve you.”

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26. “It’s hard to know when you’ve been holding on to something until you finally let it go, or it leaves of its own accord.”

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27. “I’m surrounded by people here, but I’m completely alone.”

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28. “Let this be a lesson to you – never underestimate a woman with impeccable taste.”

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29. “I see them on Facebook through the pictures Dad posts, but it’s like they aren’t real. It’s like they’re photoshopped Loch Ness monsters and the University of Whatever is going to prove the hoax by showing me the beam of light in the background is wavy or something. They’re real. Sometimes I wish they weren’t. And that’s horrible, so I stop wishing that. Or at least I try to.”

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30. “It’s like God airbrushed the crap out of her, ran out of paint for everyone else, looked down at all the babies he was chucking to Earth and went ‘hahah whoops but check this one out it’s a masterpiece’.”

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31. “That’s what a soul is: a root. It’s memories and love and feelings. And that can’t be destroyed. I promised you then and I promise you now – no one is ever really gone.”

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32. “Old God’s teeth, what in the flaming afterlife do normal girls do again?”

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33. “Living is really weird. You never get used to it. But it happens anyway. And sometimes you find things that make it a little more comfortable, and you try to hold on to those things, and the tighter you hold, the faster they slip away.”

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34. “Several ladies glom onto me as I move out of the arena and to the sidelines. “That was amazing, Lady Zera!”

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35. “That life is not worth living.” His voice is hard. “If it’s not with you.”

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36. “This, I presume, is what it means to grow up, to stop being afraid of things that used to terrify you.”

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37. “What about your funeral, eh?” She asks. “You mean the one that is never going to happen ever because I am going to gather the seven Dragonballs and wish for eternal life?” She laughs. “Yeah, that one. What’d you want for it?” I muse it over for all of six and a half seconds. “Makeouts. Naked dancing. Maybe a cake.”

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38. “And he uses big words, so he’s probably a huge nerd. To be fair, I do too, but that’s because I’m fabulous. Jack has no such excuse.”

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39. “I look down one last time at Malachite. “I’ve always thought the moments you speak Beneather are when your voice sounds the loveliest,” I admit.”

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40. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned to admire about humans, it’s that when there’s nothing left, they become strongest.”

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41. “Most things that pop into my head are really weird, like that one time when I thought about Shrek in Victoria’s Secret underwear.”

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42. “Love is being accepted and adored for who you are, scars and all.”

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43. “There are approximately nine trillion cells in my body and every single one of them hates hiking. And walking. Just moving for extended periods of time in general, really. All nine trillion of us would rather be in bed.”

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44. “I suppose when you want something badly enough, when you lose the thing most precious to you, people just become toys, puppets to move around to achieve your goals.”

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45. “Flash ’em the sass before you flash ’em the ass.”

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46. “How did you know?” She smirks. I hold up my wineglass. “Great minds drink alike.”

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47. “Being ignorant isn’t a crime, Crabby, it’s a curable ailment.”

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48. “If you fear the past, it becomes your future.”

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49. “I’ve kept it inside this long. I can do it for a lot longer. Because I’m strong.”

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50. “That one was beautiful, though.” She flushes. “Thank you. I started taking classes a month ago. I like them, but I dropped out because all the teacher wanted me to paint were ugly, soulless little watercolor landscapes. No feeling! No passion!”

— Sara Wolf