Intaglio Quotes

“Don’t cut too deep in your first prints.”
“But what if we do dig too deep?” a girl in the front asked. “What happens then?”
Giulia reached out to the side, pulling up a print stained with inky shadows, but within its depths, the faint outlines of something else. An echo of what it had been still visible in the second plate.
“Cut too deep,” she said, “and your image will keep coming back again and again, no matter how many times you rework it.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“Ava turned to the side, staring out into the dark. In profile, her face was suddenly tired and sad, and Cole felt the urge to wrap himself around her. To protect her from whatever was dragging her down.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“She turned his hand over, tracing letters into his palm.
I…L.O.V.E…Y.O.U…”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“Cole didn’t see her for the rest of the weekend, and he was glad.
She wasn’t in class on Monday either. That made it easier.
Tuesday she was still missing.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“Cole felt like he’d stumbled into some arcane Templar practise, his sense of ease disappearing the moment the cups were pulled from the shelf.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“There seemed to be as much written about the art, and what the dialogue meant, as the paintings themselves. Clement Greenburg had been the first of many. It drove her crazy, the convoluted doubletalk of artist and medium and historian. Though she loved the process of creation and the images themselves, she found it difficult to put her thoughts into words.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“Make a wish,” Oliver said, gesturing to the upturned cup, “and turn it clockwise three times.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down

“Yeah... everything is images for me. Bits and pieces coming together in pictures.” He grinned. “I see good fortune as dragons, and...” he turned the cup, pointing at a rippling shape along the edge, “and that thing there is definitely a dragon. Whoever this person is – this tall guy you talk to – it’s a good thing for you. Some kind of resolution, and a change for the future...”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: Dragons All The Way Down