Down Comes the Night Quotes

“Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier's uniform”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“It takes incredible strength to be kind in this world. To endure suffering instead of further it.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“You are not weak for grieving. For feeling anything.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Was it so terrible to need someone else? Was kindness such a horrible burden to endure?”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“You're worth more than what you can do.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“When had love become a weapon with which to destroy each other?”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“It hurt watching her smother herself. How many times had she done the same thing? Apologized for her own sadness, for daring to burden someone else with her feelings?”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Justice got us here. Justice will kill us all."
"So what do you propose instead?'
"Forgiveness.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“If any feeling would kill her, it was this one. She was in love with Hal Cavendish, and he would never know it.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“You're even more delusional than I thought if you think you can save the world by conquering it.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“I've grown tired of being tired.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“What do you like to read?”
The corner of Wren’s mouth lifted involuntarily into a smile. Apparently, he appreciated the change in topic as well. “Guess.”
He considered it as he turned another page. “Theologians.”
Wren snorted. “Goddess, no. I’m not so boring as you.”
“Penny dreadfuls?”
“Suitably lurid,” she said, “but no. Medical textbooks.”
Hal’s expression grew puzzled. “I see.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“She hated that she cried when she was angry. It was another weakness, another reason why she wasn't cut out to be a combat medic, another reason she was suspended.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“You understand you've made a serious commitment, yes?" She wound her arms around his neck. "I might not let you go."

"A terrible fate, indeed, to be your prisoner."

When he kissed her again, she couldn't help smiling against hit mouth.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“A terrible fate, indeed, to be your prisoner.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Across the hall, in the safety of her room, every feeling she’d avoided waited for her in the shadows. Her silent accusers: fear, stress, shame. They crowded in on her until she could see nothing beyond the haze of her own failure. As much as she wanted to be better, to be stronger, Hal had gotten to her.
She slid to the floor in a heap and wept.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Sparked in desperation and kept alive, secret and stifled. It was a hungry, selfish kind of love, never fully satisfied. A love that kept score. Something that flared painfully now and again, like a bone that had never set quite right.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“How could someone so vibrant just be gone?”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“He bent down and kissed her. It was as fierce as a promise, more binding than a treaty.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“It takes incredible strength to be kind in this world. To endure suffering instead of further it.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Goddess above, Hal, they're labeled. It's the one that says antidote for Hal on it.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Do you have something you'd like to say?" she said tartly.
Hal offered his arm, and when she took it, he bent close enough to speak against the shell of her ear. "No. I've no words."
"You never do, Cavendish." She closed her eyes against the pleasant shiver that ran down her spine.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Hal looked ar her as if she were the most insufferable person he'd ever met.
It filled her with an indescribable delight, fizzy and bright, like sunshine marbling the ocean.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“His searching gaze singed her face like a brand. She tried to ignore it, but two impulses, don’t look and look, warred for dominance. Fear drove the first, curiosity—and indignation—the second.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“What's done is done. What-ifs will only tear you apart.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Despite her best efforts, he’d changed her, smeared all her black-and-white beliefs into gray. Now she’d carry him with her forever, a bright, tender flame to keep safe.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“I deserve your hatred, he’d said.
No you don’t, she wanted to tell him.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“You will find your path here, even if it is not the one you imagined.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“His eyes met hers, deep as a moonless night. Confusing warmth blossomed within her chest, unfurling into her fingertips. No one had ever looked at her like this—like she might be dangerous. She liked it. Especially coming from someone like him.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Without you, I would be a different man. Without you, the sun may have risen on a very different world.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night