Sarah Porter Quotes & Sayings

He gave a sudden shake as if he couldn't stand to feel his life still holding on to him. — Sarah Porter

humans were grotesque a lot of the time, but-just once in a while-there was
something about them that was marvelous, too" ("Lost Voices" by Sarah
Porter,109) — Sarah Porter

But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can. — Sarah Porter

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

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

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

I think at first I wanted to kill all of them. Everyone. Because if there were no people left alive, then I'd never have to love one of them again. — Sarah Porter

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

A soft inward look some into his eyes, as if he was amazed to find himself alive on such a beautiful day. — Sarah Porter

If you think the timahk is so silly, Anais," Catarina finally said in a silky, deadly, regal voice, "then by all means. Try breaking it. — Sarah Porter