"The Bone People" Quotes

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Maybe it was just that I'd always expected the world to be kind, and so I had never fully faced the fact that it was not.

Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and unkind at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and the earth and everything in between.

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.

Hate is like a poison that seeps into everything, consuming you from the inside out.

Memories were like stones, time wore them smooth and dull, but those touched most often remained hard and brilliant.

There's a gift in being able to shut off wanting. That keen predatory greed, which with the mere hour of being could empty out waterholes, take villages, and turn rivers, can be calmed.

Fear is very good at finding things to fear.

Grief is an intruder, quick and choking and hiding like the shadows, but anger is a loaded gun.

The only thing out of reach was tomorrow, it was always beyond her, too far ahead to see.