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The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1) QUOTES

The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1) QUOTES

1 " If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

2 " It was years ago now, on a warm summer night,
When the boy came out of the sea.
His skin was blue and his hair was white,
And he was in love with me.
He was wild and true, and right then I knew
That he was in love with me.

In our ship we sailed for years on the ocean,
Unfettered and totally free.
And he gave all his days to his endless devotion,
For he was in love with me.
I called it a phase and made endless delays,
Though he was in love with me.

One day the waves swept him right off the ship
And dropped him into the blue.
As his skin turned to water, his hair into fish,
He asked if I loved him too.
Too late I called through the wind and the water,
'I was always in love with you.'
I was always in love with you. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

3 " Maybe someone was reading her right now, and if she looked up, she would see their eyes staring down at her, following her every move. Maybe someone was reading the reader. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

4 " —Es —leyó, sin deletrear— Un. Libro. Esto es un libro —miró hacía arriba impaciente—. Eso no es un libro. Es un pizarrón.
—¿Es lo que crees?
Lon abrió la boca para replicar, pero la cerró de nuevo al momento. Ladeó la cabeza, desconcertado. ¿Podía un pizarrón ser un libro? ¿Acaso cualquier cosa podía ser un libro, siempre y cuando uno supiera leerla? "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

5 " Ma far parte di una storia come quella? Una storia che oscurerebbe tutte le altre, con tutta la sua grandezza, tutta la sua importanza? Non mi darebbe certo più tempo, qui, ma se facessi parte di un evento del genere, forse la mia vita non sembrerebbe così piccola. Forse potrei fare qualcosa prima che finisca il mio tempo. Forse sarei importante. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

6 " Los libros son máquinas del tiempo y rompecabezas y llaves de cerrojos que ni siquiera sabíamos que existían en lo profundo de nuestro corazón. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

7 " Il punto non è aspettare che le cose vadano meglio," gli spiegava il padre. "Il punto è fare sempre del tuo meglio e credere fermamente di poter migliorare giorno dopo giorno. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

8 " If you're reading this, then maybe you know you ought to read everything. And maybe you know you ought to read deeply. Because there's witchery in these words and spellwork in the spine. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

9 " This is a book, and a book is a world, and words are the seeds in which meanings are curled. Pages of oceans and margins of land are civilizations you hold in the palm of your hand. But look at your world and your life seems to shrink to cities of paper and seas made of ink. Do you know who you are, or have you been misled? Are you the reader, or are you the read? "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

10 " Once there was, and one day there will be. This is the beginning of every story. “Once "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

11 " But books are curious objects. They have the power to trap, transport, and even transform you if you are lucky. But in the end, books—even magic ones—are only objects pieced together from paper and glue and thread. That was the fundamental truth the readers forgot. How vulnerable the book really was. To fire. To the damp. To the passage of time. And to theft. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

12 " But books are curious objects. They have the power to trap, transport, and even transform you if you are lucky. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

13 " Home’s what you make it.” Nin shrugged. “Could be a ship. Could be what you carry around on your back day after day. Could be family. Or maybe just one person you love more than any other. That’s home.” The "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

14 " Were they all just stories whose endings had already been written, the dates of their deaths pinned to the page with periods? "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

15 " Sometimes you find things and you wish you hadn’t,” he said softly. “Sometimes you wish they’d stayed lost.” • "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

16 " ...clutching the Book to his chest, under his crossed arms, as if trying to press it into his ribs, until his lungs filled with letters and his heart became a pulsing paragraph. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

17 " You got a choice, Sef. Control your future, or let your future control you.” Above, "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

18 " But being smart was overrated. Being stupid and brave and curious? Now that’s something stories are made of. Dimarion’s "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

19 " If anything could be a book, there was no telling what you could learn, if you knew what to look for. Smooth river stones spelled out across a mossy floor. Lines drawn in the sand. Or inscribed on the side of a fallen log, half-obscured by twigs and mulch: This is a book. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)

20 " It wouldn't give me more time here, but if I was part of something like that, maybe my life wouldn't be so small. Maybe I could make a difference before my time ran out. Maybe I'd matter. "

― Traci Chee , The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold, #1)