Ilie Ruby > Quotes

“Love isn't tested by how good it makes you feel. It's tested by whether you are brave enough to feel every part of it.”
― Ilie Ruby

“Who can say what they’d have done in her situation. She’s stronger than she knows. I tried to tell her that every day, too.”
“Was that the truth?” Grant asks.
Joseph smiles. “You ever see a tree that’s dying, it’s nothing but a bunch of dried out branches? You can talk to this tree, tell it all about how its leaves are growing green and healthy. Then you sit back and watch how it changes.”
― Ilie Ruby, The Language of Trees

“You could teach an animal to learn your language, but you'd be missing the point. The point was to learn its language. Only then would you understand.”
― Ilie Ruby, The Salt God's Daughter

“We spent afternoons kicking around in the sand, picking through the seaweed for shells, making headdresses of washed-up fishing ropes and hats from Styrofoam cups. Beach rats, we were called.

We stopped brushing our hair, and it hung in tangles spun by the salt air. We sprayed Sun-In across our heads and let it turn our hair orange in patches. Our skin peeled, and we didn't much care.

We woke up to the feel of sand in our sheets. We covered ourselves in baby oil and iodine and let the sun bake our skin. We smelled like Love's Baby Soft perfume, like summer all year long. We were tanned, with freckles across our noses.”
― Ilie Ruby, The Salt God's Daughter

“She said you had to know that which could save you, for it could probably also kill you.”
― Ilie Ruby, The Salt God's Daughter

“Sometimes being in the wrong place was the only place people would see you.”
― Ilie Ruby, The Salt God's Daughter

“she’d realize that some souls know beforehand that they’re going to leave, their purpose having already been fulfilled.”
― Ilie Ruby, The Language of Trees

“May we always find truth in books,”
― Ilie Ruby, The Salt God's Daughter