Quiet in Her Bones Quotes

“Protect the bonds with the people you can trust," my mother had said to me as we crossed over to Diana's house one day. "Those bonds are rare. A person who won't stab you in the back is a gift.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“Sometimes," my mother had murmured, "I see beauty and I want to break it.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“No one had told her that her fairy-tale wedding to a rich man from abroad was one of the original dark tales and not the sanitized cutesy version.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“My father used to say I was useless, that I'd never make anything of myself. Now every day someone finds a way to tell me I'm brilliant."
"Does that cause mental dissonance?"
"If you mean confusion, then no. It's just...it's strange. Like the me that people know is skin suit that I wear for the rest of the world.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“The instant you run around anyone, Ari, you give them power,' my mother had said. Her lips on my cheek, her fingers around the thin stem of a cocktail glass, diamonds sparkling in the sun. 'Be the one who is pursued.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“Respect is one thing. being liked and respected, that's true power. People will do anything for you if they like you.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“Even lovers of murder had a well-concealed romantic bone or two. Probably buried in the basement under two feet of concrete.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“Do you need tissues for your issues'? I have no idea where she picked it up from, but if only we could fix all our wounds with tissues.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“I looked up, but she had her head down as she chopped some spinach. But head down didn't mean no ears and no brain.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“Seventy-five and seventy-nine and in on hurry to move into a retirement home, they treated old age like an attempt at hostile takeover.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“I might be a self-diagnosed sociopath with a mask for every occasion, but I wasn't a monster.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“Her lush and scalding heat had alternately confused and angered me. Why, I'd thought, couldn't she be like other mothers? Soft and warm and comfortable. Yet at the same time, I'd been proud of having a mother others craved. Fucked up wasn't the half of it.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“In another life, she could've been a professor. In this life, she'd been a rich man's wife. Now, she was just bones.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“My unshed tears had hardened to stone inside me.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“Politeness is a good thing; it works to keep people onside, keep them talking- and keep them from looking too deep. People tell me all kinds of things because I'm polite and empathic. Dr. Jitrnicka tells me it's a controlling tactic because I do it will so much self-awareness.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“My father is a hard man to love. I've never been sure if he even wants love, or if all he wants or needs is obedience. As for returning any affection given, that's a non-event. To Ishaan Rai, his family is his possession.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“Murder and gore.
The world laps it up.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones

“Ten years was a long time for evidence to age and fade. For flesh to disappear. For everyone to forget that Nina Parvati Rai had been a living, breathing woman who'd loved music and cooking and had a mind like a computer.
In another life she could have been a professor.
In this life she'd been a rich man's wife.
Now she was just bones.”
― Nalini Singh, Quiet in Her Bones