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Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1) QUOTES

Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1) QUOTES

1 " Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

2 " As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

3 " This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

4 " They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

5 " Kisses could lie as well as words. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

6 " You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

7 " Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

8 " Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

9 " I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

10 " We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

11 " The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

12 " Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they’d need to destroy something that precious to feel full. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

13 " It began to feel almost benign, these calm days in the sun. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

14 " He and his mother weren't close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

15 " Books cannot fight for themselves. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

16 " He was smothered by dread. Fear. A horrible sense of being hunted.
And then one of the automaton lions turned its head toward him. The eyes shone red. Red like blood. Red like fire.
They could smell it on him, the illegal book. Or maybe just his fear "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

17 " The Great Library may have once been a boon, but what is it today? What does it give us? It suppresses! It stifles! You, sir, do you own a book? No, sir, not a blank, filled only with what they want you to read...a real book, an original work, in the hand of the writer? The library owns our memories, yet you cannot own your own books! Why? Why do they fear it? Why do they fear to allow you the choice? "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

18 " It didn't help matters that Khalila suddenly broke down in tears. Even Glain seemed emotional. Jess was a little surprised by that. But the real question, Jess thought, is 'why I feel so little and they feel so much.' Maybe it was his upbringing. Maybe it was all the death he'd seen in the smuggling trade.
Or maybe he was just trying to keep it all locked in a small, dark box until he could face what he felt. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

19 " Tota est scientia
Knowledge is all "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

20 " A blank isn't the same. He remembered holding the book, feeling the history of the leather cover someone had tanned and stretched and cut to fit. The paper that someone had laboriously filled by hand and sewn into the binding. Years, heavy on the pages. Morgan had been reading a copy of it. An original. It felt like the old monk's story was part of his own.
But when he read it in the blank, it was just words, and it had no power to carry him away. "

― Rachel Caine , Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)