A Far Wilder Magic Quotes

“When she looks like this, flushed and hazy and haloed by the moon, he truly can believe God exists, and her name is Margaret Welty.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive. Most days, that’s enough. Today, she doesn’t think it is.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“No one knows how to hurt you if you always play the fool. No one can be truly disappointed in you if they don’t expect any better.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“In the dim porchlight, she looks like something out of a poem he read in school before he dropped out.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“How many times will she watch someone leave this place and never look back, while she is left here like a ghost to haunt it?”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“She could learn how to make the sting of abandonment fade into numbness. She could learn to detach until it felt like she wasn’t real at all.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“I saw it the moment I laid eyes on him. He looks at the world like he wants to swallow it whole.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“How could Margaret ever think he'd lose himself to alchemy when he has already hopelessly lost himself to her?”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“Then he will give her something solid to hold on to. If he can convince her of one thing in his life, let it be this: A life beyond that house, beyond all the ghosts that haunt it, is a dream worth believing in. One worth trying for.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“All he has is a dream of a better world where they could be happy together. But that’s all it is. A stupid dream. An empty promise, just like she said.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“Love is not the sharp-edged thing she's always believed it to be. It's not like the sea, liable to slip through her fingers if she holds on too tight. It's not a currency, something to be earned or denied or bartered for. Love can be steadfast. It can be certain and safe, or as wild as an open flame. It's a slice of buttered bread at dinner table. It's a grudge born of worry. It's broken skin pulled over swollen knuckles.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“There are punishments far worse than being struck. To be forsaken and unloved - that is the worst fate of all.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“It's only now that he has her attention that he realizes how badly he wanted it. He wants so many things from her right now. More than anything, he wants to see her smile.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“For those with impossible dreams and for those who feel dreaming is impossible. There is so much waiting for you on the horizon.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“I never said that. You assumed that. You assumed correctly, but that’s beside the point.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“Maggie Welty looks like the kind of girl who would sooner kill a man than admire one.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“But if lust is so perverse, why would God make girls”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“Even if Wes has experienced the same kind of rejection she has, even if she wanted to confide in him, what would she say? She has hidden behind too many locked doors to know how to open them anymore”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“She can understand the complicated feelings that come from forsaking your heritage.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“Weston, with his foppish hair and calculating smile, wouldn’t last two minutes against her mother.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“If he can’t grieve his father or his impossible dreams without hurting his family or himself, what other choice does he have but to keep things light? To dazzle people so they can’t look for the cracks? He’s survived this long by letting everyone believe he’s selfish and shallow. It’s better that way. No one knows how to hurt you if you always play the fool.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“All her life, love has been a scarce and precious resource, something earned or denied, something she starved for every day. But with Wes, love is different. It is reckless and inexhaustible. It is freely given. It simply is. Time and time again, he’s stayed beside her through her doubt. He’s shown her that she is enough, lovable despite her fears and her walls. That she is more than what happened to her and the pains she’s taken to avoid it happening again. And now, he’s given her the chance to prove it to herself.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“I never should have left you,
I never should have let you go.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“He wants so much more than he has allowed himself to imagine. He wants her, desperately and entirely. But for now, with her safe and whole against him, it’s enough.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“he’s allergic to being honest”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“They’re the same height, nearly nose to nose. Wes decides this means she is tall rather than the alternative.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“Maybe you’re holding back, or maybe you’re thinking too much. Either way, somewhere down the line, you’re losing too much energy to entropy. So relax. You know it works in theory, so why shouldn’t it in practice?”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“Not all of us have big dreams, she told him once.
Wes thought her so small-minded back then, and now he wants to kick himself for being such a fool. Of course she had no big dreams when she couldn't see much past surviving another week. She can't hold them like a gun, or eat them, or burn them to keep the house warm.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

“It’s not only that she’s terrifying and wild. It’s not that he wants her in spite of her plainness or that she’s driven him mad or ensorcelled him. It is so much more than that. How could he have been so blind for so long? Margaret Welty is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and he is completely, hopelessly in love with her.”
― Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic