Your Blood, My Bones Quotes

“Dully, she wondered if this was what heartbreak felt like- looking into the eyes of someone she'd spent her whole life memorizing and finding nothing recognizable left over in their depths.”
― Kelly Andrew, Your Blood, My Bones

“He could have told her she was dead wrong -- that he'd studied her for so long, for so many years, that he knew her like a sailor knew the sea. That he felt the shifts in her moods the way a lightkeeper's knees ached before a storm.”
― Kelly Andrew, Your Blood, My Bones

“She thought of him out in the henyard, naming all the chickens. The way the goat followed him from room to room, chewing at his sleeves. The way he'd sharpened himself into something cruel, to hide the fact that all he wanted was someplace soft to land.”
― Kelly Andrew, Your Blood, My Bones

“dying is the simplest thing in the world. You don’t have to do anything but sit there and take it.”
― Kelly Andrew, Your Blood, My Bones

“Mortal life is so fleeting, but love is as enduring as death.”
― Kelly Andrew, Your Blood, My Bones

“You are; he didn't hate her. He loved her so much that it was like holding his heart out of his body.”
― Kelly Andrew, Your Blood, My Bones

“On the floor beneath her, wildflowers exploded from scattered paper seed bags in a vast array of colors, burying her in a makeshift meadow.”
― Kelly Andrew, Your Blood, My Bones