Julie Eshbaugh > Quotes

“It's odd, I think, how the thing you love most in a person can also be the thing you sometimes wish you could change”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“What we left behind can’t be seen; what we gathered can’t be carried.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“Friendship requires truth, and there is no truth in her.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“Some people can see things with their hearts. Others need to see them with their eyes.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“If I told you monsters could be tamed, would you want to live with monsters? Even a tame monster is still a monster.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion: A Gripping YA Survival Fantasy About a Cutthroat Race for Freedom

“Why don't you tell me a story?”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“Tell me something wonderful- a story that's startling and marvelous.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“I have no other choice. If I stop, I could die.
If I stop, you could die.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“There is strong danger in a person who can create such powerful deceit they can no longer distinguish their own lies from the truth.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“I can't change the pain you suffered in the past, but I can do everything possible to prevent the pain you might suffer in the future.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“Ignorance never protected anyone for long.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“Of course, I know that love is sometimes like that—some men love men, some women love women.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“I bite my lips between my teeth to hold them still. And remind myself what courage really is. Not the lack of fear, but action in the face of fear. And not selfish action either, but action taken in love.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion: A Gripping YA Survival Fantasy About a Cutthroat Race for Freedom

“But at this moment, this one word feels like the answer to every question:

You.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“I will change my tomorrows with what I do today. With what I do right now.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion: A Gripping YA Survival Fantasy About a Cutthroat Race for Freedom

“The starkness of this truth startles me, illuminates an awareness in me of something I could not—or would not—acknowledge before.

I cannot let you die, because I cannot face a future without you.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“That's why I like the blackest nights-the darkest, obsidian skies of winter. When the world is coldest and darkest, the stars shine brightest.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Obsidian and Stars

“I can’t really appreciate the stars, so beautiful against the blue-black sky, they make me want to live to see them another night. A growing part of me wishes I could stop striving for life and lie down and die, so the beauty of the stars only stokes my anger, to be honest. Stars are for people safe enough to enjoy them.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion: A Gripping YA Survival Fantasy About a Cutthroat Race for Freedom

“I will change my tomorrows with what I do today. With what I do right now. - Astrid”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion: A Gripping YA Survival Fantasy About a Cutthroat Race for Freedom

“I have no other choice. If I stop, I could die. If I stop, you could die.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone

“Stars are for people safe enough to enjoy them.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion: A Gripping YA Survival Fantasy About a Cutthroat Race for Freedom