Being Saved Quotes

“I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“There are two most important things in the world - being in danger, and being saved.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“At my most precarious, I balanced on a book, and the books rafted me over the tides of feelings that left me soaked and shattered.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“like that
only love saves us at last from the grip
of the worst danger we know of:
to be only–and nothing else—ourselves.”
― Javier Velaza

“And if nothing will free us from death
at least love will save us from life.”
― Javier Velaza

“They say Scheherazade saved all women with storytelling

I can’t even save myself before sunrise

I feel like I’m down
there with him
pushing against
what hurts most”
― Mona Kareem