Vassa in the Night Quotes

“Why did it take me so many years to understand that Night is something you can talk to, something that might even decide to watch over you or kiss you just when you're about to crumple from loneliness?”
― Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night

“No matter who I couldn't save before, no matter if I'm stuck being a random mess of a girl, I'm still going to save something.”
― Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night

“You don't have to be human to be a person. I mean you don't have to be human to be somebody. I don't know you that well, but you seem like way more of a somebody than lots of humans I know! Really.”
― Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night

“When I used to say I wanted to be anywhere but Brooklyn, I maybe didn't mean it this literally. And, I suddenly understand, I do want to be Vassa--or technically I want to make Vassa into somebody worth being. The only way to become that somebody is to live in a real, substantial world: a world that doesn't follow orders, that's just as willful and independent as I'm going to be. I can only become a whole girl in a place that offers resistance; a place that makes me fight for what I want.”
― Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night