Home > Author > Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Kiran Millwood Hargrave QUOTES

Kiran Millwood Hargrave QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " I like how everything echoes with everything else if you listen hard enough "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , Julia and the Shark

3 " Handsome man, as these Scots often seem to be… "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Mercies

4 " It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten. "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Mercies

5 " The day is impossibly bright: the sort of crystalline clarity that comes when winter still sits in the air. They have already entered at the narrow mouth of the fjord, and the cliffs rise sheerly either side, a clean hundred feet, the black rock raked with lines of lighter grey. The sea is green and glitters with chips of ice, and as soon as the wind bites at her face and brings up its blood, chilling her lungs, she feels better than she has since she left home.
‘They are magnificent, are they not?’
‘They are,’ she breathes, and is embarrassed by the keenness in her voice. ‘Though you must have seen mightier, captain?’
‘I take each sight for itself alone, Mistress Cornet. "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Mercies

6 " …she has taken to wearing her faith like armour, wielding her piousness like a blade. "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Mercies

7 " 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

8 " Grief cannot feed you, though it fills you. "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Mercies

9 " 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

10 " 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

11 " This story is about people, and how they lived; before why and how they died became what defined them. "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Mercies

12 " 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

13 " 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

14 " 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

15 " At night, the grief is harder to manage. "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Mercies

16 " They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too. "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Girl of Ink and Stars

17 " …she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living. "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Mercies

18 " 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

19 " 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

20 " I don't like to be in a dark where stars don't shine. "

― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , The Girl of Ink and Stars