The Bone Knife Quotes

“You’re a hard woman, Mistress Amraeya,” he says quietly. “You should on occasion be kinder to yourself.”
― Intisar Khanani, The Bone Knife

“It was my own thoughts and arguments he turned back to me, calling me by the name I have accepted as my own and branded myself with. A word that cuts deep as bone.”
― Intisar Khanani, The Bone Knife

“I don’t hate him,” I say. I think of him, his lips shaping the word cripple, and I find myself hating my turned foot, my deformed ankle and stilted gait. And there it is in truth: I disliked him because of his own beauty, because of his grace and elegance and perfection of form, none of which I can ever hope to attain.”
― Intisar Khanani, The Bone Knife

“In the afternoon light I realize that his eyes are not all black, but the deepest brown fringing a night-dark center. There is a warmth there that blackness cannot hold, like a forest in darkest night, the trees still friendly company.”
― Intisar Khanani, The Bone Knife

“Best make sure he doesn’t pay with faerie gold,” I warn Mama.

She chuckles. “If your father isn’t wise enough to beware of that, he deserves to lose them.”
― Intisar Khanani, The Bone Knife