Savage Delight Quotes

“The sadness will last forever. And I think he was right, but I also think he was very, very wrong. It doesn’t last forever. Because we don’t last forever.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“Sometimes people need to be messed up. It reminds them life is short.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“Jack doesn’t give a jackshit about me. No, wait, I got that backwards. I don’t give a jackshit about Jack the Shit.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“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.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“Why do I feel the sudden urge to perform violence on your face?”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“Dying before you pay someone back is just plain rude.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“You’re the most confusing girl I’ve ever met.” “Yeah.” I smile. “Not sorry.” “Good.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“She smells like coconut and the tears of every boy who will never have a chance with her.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“You’ll be okay driving home?” “Duh,” I feel miffed that he’d pat me like a child, but also weird and glowy on the inside in places I don’t even wanna think about. “I’m like a NASCAR driver. Minus the millions of dollars.” “Shame, really. Imagine how many more people you could annoy if you were a millionaire.” “At least ten whole people. And their grandmas.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“Ello, love. Fancy a cuppa?"
"You're not British, Isis," Naomi says.
"I can be things," I insist.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“My gut isn't wrong. Except when it has diarrhea. Then it is very, very wrong.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“Most things that pop into my head are really weird, like that one time when I thought about Shrek in Victoria's Secret underwear.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“I’ll text if there’s issues. Tissues. Not tissues, tissues are disgusting and so are issues.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“The words are holloew. But that's okay. Most things are, these days.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“You like it. Knowing things about people. It makes you feel powerful.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“Men like to categorize women.” I curl my lip. “Into convenient little boxes like ‘hot’, or ‘cute’, or ‘beautiful’. It’s easy for them. It’s never been easy for me.”

　　“So this particular girl,” the man leads. “She’s none of those?”

　　“She’s all of those,” I say, a little too quickly for my own liking. “And more than those, and at the same time she’s none of those. She is exactly herself, no more and no less.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“Uh, you're the fashionable expert here. I just sort of throw on things that don't have holes in them and hope for the best. I read a Cosmo onece on the toilet. Does that count?”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“I’m not the princess, I’m the goddamn dragon, and you can’t seem to see that.”
― Sara Wolf, Forget Me Always

“I underestimated this guy. He plays the game well. Of course he does. He’s had years of adulthood – where everyone smiles when they hate someone and bottles up their emotions – to practice in. He’s a master of passive-aggressive-bullshit-taekwondo. And I’m more a master of the aggressive style.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“She looks like an inbred Pomeranian on her best days.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight

“We want to believe, so we make things up to believe in, because it’s easier. It’s less scary to think there’s a God out there, a sentient, omnipotent man watching over us, making everything happen for a reason. We want to believe, even if it isn’t true. So we make it true. We give it reason, when there is no reason. It’s as simple as that. If anything, we are the gods. We make things real by believing.”
― Sara Wolf, Forget Me Always

“Tallulah I stare at the name for what feels like hours. Days. Tallulah. Tallie, for short.”
― Sara Wolf, Forget Me Always

“What’s one more scar on a girl full of them already, inside and out?”
― Sara Wolf, Forget Me Always

“Well, to find that out, we need to go to the beginning.” “You mean like, biblical Genesis? Because I have three rules for a happy, fulfilling life, and ‘Never Time Travel Ever’ is one of them. Because, you know. Dinosaurs killed things. And the bubonic plague killed things. And let’s face it—with my supreme amounts of unnatural charm, I’d be burned as a witch.” She”
― Sara Wolf, Forget Me Always

“You never get used to being slotted into a giant doughnut's vagina.”
― Sara Wolf, Savage Delight