Intaglio Quotes

“You’re an old soul, Ava...” he’d begun, his voice tired.
“God, Dad... Let’s not do this now, please...”
“It’s true. You are. But that means you have to choose your life… not just react to it.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: The Snake and the Coins

“She was all about the present. Paint and blood and lust. The now.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: The Snake and the Coins

“I think sometimes in artwork or writing or music, you discover something that just needs to be created. It’s not even something that you want to create... You’re just pulled into it like an instrument. Like you’re part of a bigger plan.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: The Snake and the Coins

“Just stop worrying about it,” she said quietly. “Just let the stone be what it wants to be. You can’t control everything, you know.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: The Snake and the Coins

“You’re breaking the fucking law, Cole… there is no right way to do this.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: The Snake and the Coins

“No, I’m serious,” he insisted, matching her pace perfectly. “Someone you’ve never met before… but it seems like you have.”
Ava slowed slightly and he followed without dropping her eyes.
“Like you...” Ava answered.
She intended for it to be a question, but it came out as a statement instead, because this was part of what unsettled her about Cole Thomas. The feeling that she knew him somehow, or had known him at some point… and that there was something more to it.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: The Snake and the Coins

“And then they half-ran, half-skipped the last eight blocks to her apartment, their bodies connected by their crossed arms. Half a block away, their combined shadow looked like the wings of a single sea bird, wheeling in a bright sky. Two blocks further, and they looked like two boats, alone on an endless ocean. One block from that, and their joined bodies merged into a symbol of infinity.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: The Snake and the Coins

“Cole Thomas.’
The name, like an incantation, was on her lips.”
― Danika Stone, Intaglio: The Snake and the Coins