Ink and Bone Quotes

“You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom. A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they’d need to destroy something that precious to feel full.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“When you steal a book, you steal from the world, the Library propaganda said”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“You have to learn how to listen before you will hear.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Desperate people do desperate things. You cannot be one of them. You must be better.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“But the Library still held everything he’d ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“The destruction of Rayy taught us that calculated politics and unthinking rage—make no mistake, the two are sometimes hand in hand—are the greatest threats knowledge can face.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Not all knowledge is books. Those out there, they’re history is stone. Men carved them. Men sweated in this sun to put them there, to make their city more beautiful. Who are you to say what’s worthy for men to see today, or tomorrow?”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Don’t play to your strengths,” Jess told her. “Strengthen your weaknesses.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“I'm as good a Catholic as you," Jess said. "I just don't hold with making the world into copies of what I like.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Books and men left the same traces where they burned. The”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“And knowledge is the purest form of power.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Kisses could lie as well as words.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Tota est scientia
Knowledge is all”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“With some enemies, it’s safer to let them destroy themselves.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Some people you don’t walk away from.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Pharaoh has also heard your words regarding the unaccompanied admission of females to this sacred space of the Serapeum, and in his divine wisdom refuses this argument, for women must be instructed by the more developed minds of men to ensure they do not wrongly interpret the riches that the Library offers.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“His divine wisdom can kiss my common arse”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone