Cast in Oblivion Quotes

“But home, for us, is each other, no matter where we happen to be.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“I don’t know what’s happening—but Spike says things are getting worse. She hesitated.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“choice is the defining factor of independent life. For better or worse. If the parents restrict choice, reserve it, forbid it, their children will remain children for the entirety of their existence.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“She had a choice; she had chosen to listen. She had offered, wordless and desperate, to help.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“Communication was often like this, though: stumbling, tripping, getting up again. Moving, however clumsily, forward.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“Because sometimes saying it—where only you can hear it, but forcing yourself to find the actual words—is helpful. Or at least it has been for some of my tenants. Not all of them, of course; all of you are different individuals. But some found it helpful—almost as if saying it out loud was an exorcism. It released the words instead of allowing them to remain trapped in their thoughts, wearing deeper and deeper grooves.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“Right or wrong is decided on the basis of a significant moment.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“No, she thought, it wasn’t the love that caused pain. It was the expectations. The hopes and dreams that surrounded it. The breaking of those dreams.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“See what’s actually in front of you. Not what you’re afraid of. Not what you want to see. But what’s actually there.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“Nightshade—like any living, thinking person—was capable of more than one truth.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion

“...knowing someone is trustworthy is merely one step in the building of a relationship of any kind.”
― Michelle Sagara, Cast in Oblivion