Page 288 Quotes

“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 last thing we expect others to do is the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them”
― Lauren Kate, Teardrop

“I have come to realize that there are only two perfect acts. They are the two most important acts known to me, but I forbid myself to perform them, and leave them in the hands of humankind. They are the creation of life...and life's taking.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.”
― Lauren Kate, Waterfall