"The Weight of Ink" Quotes

But what if the fire doesn't come? What if the only thing that ends up burning is your life, consumed in the waiting?

In this world, only the dead stay where they're put. The rest of us must go where we're needed.

We are made of such stuff as dreams are made on, our little lives rounded with a sleep.

To be a woman is to be a ghost, and the world is always trying to make you into one.

How do we bear what's unbearable? We bear it by not bearing it. By turning our heads away.

It's not only what we do, but what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

In the end, it's the doing that matters. That's what makes our lives real.

History is not a straight line. It's a circle that doubles back on itself, over and over.

There's no such thing as too much knowledge. Knowledge is power, they say.

To be a reader is to live a thousand lives before you die.