Ingrid Quotes

“The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“... even if I couldn't get into the dark places in her head, I would at least be there waiting on the outside.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Ingrid deserved better than selfish kisses and an empty, hopeless future. Even if the Dispossessed allowed it, she deserved to be more than Luc's human obsession. He would end it, cut himself off from her. He could better protect her then. That was all Luc was. It was all he could ever be. Her watchman. Her guardian.

Her gargoyle.”
― Page Morgan, The Beautiful and the Cursed

“She may not be mine, but I am still hers.”
― Page Morgan, The Lovely and the Lost

“The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“I knew what he was talking about to an extent - that indistinct line between awake and dreaming. But usually the line sharpened seconds after walking up. It didn't stick with you and make you question what was real.”
― Marit Weisenberg, The Insomniacs