Ink and Bone Quotes

“Life is an impossible twist of choice and circumstance. One rarely exists without the other.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Fear holds on. Love lets go.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“The girl with the pictures on her skin”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Girls want what they want in the moment, his dad always said. The next moment they want something else. You just have to give it to them and not ask too many questions. That’s the trick to getting along with the ladies. So far, Rainer hadn’t seen anything that proved his father wrong. “All right, baby, whatever you say.” That phrase right there is the key to my successful marriage.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Things didn’t seem real unless they were written in ink on paper. Words on a screen floated, seemed virtual and insubstantial. Ink sank in and stayed, rooted in the real world.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“How the hell should I know what we deserve?”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Or she could listen to that other voice, the voice that wasn’t a voice but something so deep, so indivisible from her own consciousness that it didn’t have sound.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Something about her called away a piece of him, and it floated through the air and she breathed it in, and it was forever lost to her.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Daily, she forgave his flaws, just as she knew he forgave hers. Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Finley felt a fresh wash of tears, a desire to run toward Eloise, to cling and to hold on. But she didn’t. She had already learned the most important lesson Eloise had to teach, though it still hurt like hell: Fear holds on. Love lets go. “Yes,”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. —John Milton, Paradise Lost”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Fear holds on. Love lets go. “Yes,”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“They just want to be heard. They just want us to listen to their stories. Are”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“As far as Eloise was concerned, there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“There were 9,780 living souls populating The Hollows. There were good people and bad ones, people with secrets and dark appetites, happy people, and people buckling under the weight of grief and sorrow. There were people who were looking for things and loved ones they had lost, and people hiding. There were lost people, trying to find their way home. Each of them was connected to the others in ways that were obvious or as hidden as the abandoned mine tunnels beneath the ground. Each had his purpose and his place in The Hollows, whether he knew it or not. Everything here had its time and its season.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone

“Her mother always said that when you were sad or worried or angry, that you had to do something. Anything. Go for a walk. Make cookies. Draw a picture. Clean your room. Never just lie there and feel sad or mad, because those feelings become like weights, holding you down, and they only get heavier, and you only get less likely to move them.”
― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone