“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
“Grief cannot feed you, though it fills you.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“It's hard, isn't it? Describing a person only in words, when they can hold whole worlds in them.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Island at the End of Everything
“This story is about people, and how they lived; before why and how they died became what defined them.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“Many of them seem past caring what is true or not, only desperate for some reason, some order to the rearrangement of their lives, even if it is brought about by a lie.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“I remember once when runes gave you comfort, when sailors came to my father to cast bones and tell them of their time to come. They are a language, Maren. Just because you do not speak it doesn't make it devilry.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“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
“But now she knows she was foolish to believe that evil existed only out there. It was here, among them, walking on two legs, passing judgement with a human tongue.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“It is knowing that all your joy is bound up in another, and to be parted from it would be to live without light for the rest of your days.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars
“It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“At night, the grief is harder to manage.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“…she has taken to wearing her faith like armour, wielding her piousness like a blade.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“Stories are just a different way of telling the truth.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Way Past Winter
“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
“That's another thing about words: there's space in them. They change according to whose mouth they're coming out of. Sometimes they change so much in mine they become something else entirely, but Dad says these are called lies.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark
“I don't like to be in a dark where stars don't shine.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars
“…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“Together, we plummeted into dark.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars
“Grief cannot feed you, though it fills you.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“It's hard, isn't it? Describing a person only in words, when they can hold whole worlds in them.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Island at the End of Everything
“This story is about people, and how they lived; before why and how they died became what defined them.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“Many of them seem past caring what is true or not, only desperate for some reason, some order to the rearrangement of their lives, even if it is brought about by a lie.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“I remember once when runes gave you comfort, when sailors came to my father to cast bones and tell them of their time to come. They are a language, Maren. Just because you do not speak it doesn't make it devilry.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“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
“But now she knows she was foolish to believe that evil existed only out there. It was here, among them, walking on two legs, passing judgement with a human tongue.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“It is knowing that all your joy is bound up in another, and to be parted from it would be to live without light for the rest of your days.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars
“It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“At night, the grief is harder to manage.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“…she has taken to wearing her faith like armour, wielding her piousness like a blade.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“Stories are just a different way of telling the truth.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Way Past Winter
“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
“That's another thing about words: there's space in them. They change according to whose mouth they're coming out of. Sometimes they change so much in mine they become something else entirely, but Dad says these are called lies.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark
“I don't like to be in a dark where stars don't shine.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars
“…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
“Together, we plummeted into dark.” ― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars
