The Girl of Ink and Stars Quotes

“Each of us carries the map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even in the way we grow.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Each of us carries a map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even the way we grow.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“I don't like to be in a dark where stars don't shine.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“The North Star held its place firmly above us, not the brightest in the sky but the stillest. Da always called it an anchor, a tethered star about which the sky turned.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Together, we plummeted into dark.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon, and the constant battle with the wind was exhausting for us as well as the horses. Fierce”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“leaves were like lace, criss-crossing blackly over tangles of dead branches. I”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“The threads of problems dangled in front of me, and I tried to think of a way to weave them into a solution. I”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“can see you are doubting me, Isa, but I believe it. I believe that that boat was not of this earth, or, at least, was not of the human earth. It was given to him by the island, and taken back. All things have a cycle, Isabella, a habit of returning the way they came. Seasons, water, lives, perhaps even trees. You don’t always need a map to find your path back.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Gromera”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Pablo”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Masha,”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“What”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Da”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“note?”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“jerking”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“room,”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Da’s”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars