Quotes from Ink and Bone

“You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they’d need to destroy something that precious to feel full.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“When you steal a book, you steal from the world." the Library propaganda said”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Desperate people do desperate things. You cannot be one of them. You must be better.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Books and men left the same traces where they burned. The”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“The destruction of Rayy taught us that calculated politics and unthinking rage—make no mistake, the two are sometimes hand in hand—are the greatest threats knowledge can face.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“You have to learn how to listen before you will hear.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“With some enemies, it’s safer to let them destroy themselves.” The”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge, and wisdom. A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not, in itself, wisdom.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“His divine wisdom can kiss my common arse”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“I am not the Library’s child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom. To”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Are you all right?" The question surprised Jess, and it broke through his black shell enough to make him throw a look at his friend. "No." I didn't think you were. Everyone wants you to be. That must be worse, that they think you should be fine.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Even here, you can ask the wrong questions and speak the wrong truths, Postulants. Here ends today’s lesson. Tota est scientia.” Their”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“He pulled out his personal journal and pen. Jess understood the impulse, all too well, to spill out the bile and hurt into ink, where no one could see it. He”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“Are you all right?” The question surprised Jess, and it broke through his black shell enough to make him throw a look at his friend. “No.” “I didn’t think you were. Everyone wants you to be. That must be worse, that they just think you should be . . . fine.” Thomas”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

“He was smothered by dread. Fear. A horrible sense of being hunted.
And then one of the automaton lions turned its head toward him. The eyes shone red. Red like blood. Red like fire.
They could smell it on him, the illegal book. Or maybe just his fear”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone

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