A Ship of Bones and Teeth Quotes

“Like you’re the moon and I’m the tides, and every thought, every need, every want, is drawn to you, Maren.” I laugh to myself. “You’re right, this is madness and I’m drowning and I don’t give a damn.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“I’ve never had an addiction before,” he says hoarsely. “But I think you’ll be mine.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Darling, your body would bring any man to their knees where they would be in the right position to worship you. It’s a body carved by god yet meant for sin, and it would become anyone’s salvation.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“I’ve fallen for you, drowned in this pure delirium of what you are, this fever dream that won’t let me go. Your heart, soul, body, and spirit. Oh, how I love you fiercely … I love you as fiercely as the fierce little creature you are.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“You were never meant to be a princess, Maren. You were meant to be a queen.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Of all the battles we fight, grief is the one that we cannot win. There is no winning and there is no losing. Grief makes a home within your bones so that you’ll carry it for all time.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Even if the cat could understand me, it is still a cat and they don’t listen to anyone.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“She and I are the same, two worlds come together until we’ve created one of our own.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Perhaps the both of us are mad, if madness and monsters are one of the same,” I murmur. “But we can be mad together. We can drown in our madness together.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Sometimes I feel like I’m falling apart slowly, then all at once.”
“You are not falling apart, luv,” I tell her, speaking so that my lips touch hers. “You are just falling into place.”
“Is that place with you?” she asks, her mouth moving against mine, barely a kiss at all.
“What do you think?”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Princess?” I ask, and the woman stirs, her eyes widening, as if she’s suddenly aware that she’s floating in the ocean. “I’ve come to rescue you, milady,” I tell her, flashing her a grin and spitting out sea water. I expect her to scream for help or try to swim away. Instead, the princess punches me right in the face.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“You are a stunning abyss of a creature," I tell her.
"One that I could spend eons swimming in and never get to the bottom of.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Stay with me,” he whispers. “Don’t go back to the deep. Stay with me at the surface. With the sun and the moon and the stars.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“I make no false claims when it comes to you, luv, you belong to me body and soul, heart and spirit.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Some might say he speaks straight from the devil, but I’m discovering I like what the devil has to say.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Of all the battles we fight, grief is the one that we cannot win. There is no winning and there is no losing. Grief makes a home within your bones so that you’ll carry it for all time. Loss and tragedy don’t stop more loss and tragedy from occurring and grief will always follow you, like a shadow you don’t want.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“You are the moon, I am the tides,”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Life doesn’t pull any punches just because it’s already beaten you to the ground. It doesn’t let you breathe just because you’re already drowning.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“You were never meant to be a princess, Maren. You were meant to be a queen. Perhaps my queen.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“But why be a princess, when you could be a pirate?”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“I know when he looks at me like this, with such intensity, he’s seeing all of me, even the parts I’m used to hiding. And whether it’s something I’m ashamed of or not, he sees it.
And I remember, once upon a time, that had been all I ever wanted.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“I taste her, savor her, want to sink deeper in these depths until she is my only obsession.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“I care about your mental health”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“You’re bloody impossible not to love.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Huzzah!” the crew yells, raising their swords and muskets in the air. One of them is even lifting up a femur, possibly his own.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“cantankerous.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“I saw the signs and I stayed anyway because some part of me truly believed that I would be exempt and that love would solve all my problems.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“human love can wear many disguises and can change over the years, becoming sour and corrupt as spoiled milk.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“I just exist in this space between the worlds with nowhere to belong to. My soul is adrift.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“I don’t know what you’ve done to me,” he says again, shaking his head slightly, awe in his gaze. “You’re more than the answer to my prayers. You’re the answer to prayers I never knew I had. You’re an enchantment, a treasure, a powerful curse in its own right and I am one hundred percent under your spell.”
― Karina Halle, A Ship of Bones and Teeth