Salvation Day Quotes

“How insidiously easy it was to convince oneself that the burden of proving one’s humanity rested entirely on the shoulders of those in need of help, and not on those who could help but chose not to.”
― Kali Wallace, Salvation Day

“The day we believe ourselves immune from the cruelties and atrocities of the past is the day we commit them again.”
― Kali Wallace, Salvation Day

“I’m going to say they should learn from what Zahra said about what her father believed.”
“The world not as it is,” Aunt Padmavati said quietly, “but as it is meant to be.”
― Kali Wallace, Salvation Day

“The universe was larger now, and more terrifying, but the same mistakes lingered, and the same truths remained. Everything built by human hands could be destroyed. Everything dreamed by human minds could be preserved.”
― Kali Wallace, Salvation Day

“I had never been able to explain how it felt to be an empty shell of memory where a son ought to be.”
― Kali Wallace, Salvation Day

“When a person dies there are seconds when the heart still squeezes, not yet knowing it is time to stop. Human bodies are messy, imperfect things, a tangle of crossed signals and incomplete messages.”
― Kali Wallace, Salvation Day

“I knew what it felt like to turn toward the stars because it was easier to gaze into unknowable darkness than to look at the painful wreckage of the life that surrounds you. I knew what it meant to take the knot of hopes and hurts and fears from inside and hurl it into deep space, across voids and galaxies, through dust and light.”
― Kali Wallace, Salvation Day