Ink Exchange Quotes:

He looked good, like sin in a suit.

- Melissa Marr

topic: Suits, Sin, Ink Exchange

Maybe the girl would get strong enough to withstand an ink exchange with one of the chosen faeries. If not, he could always give her to one of the weaker fey. It seemed a shame to waste a lovely broken toy.

- Melissa Marr

source: Melissa Marr (2009). “Ink Exchange”, p.3, Harper Collins

topic: Girl, Strong, Broken, Ink Exchange

What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?

- Melissa Marr

topic: Dream, Mean, Light, Ink Exchange

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

- Melissa Marr

topic: Feelings, Paint, Feels, Ink Exchange

And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

- Melissa Marr

topic: Sometimes, Ink Exchange

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

- Melissa Marr

topic: Lying, Want, Like You, Ink Exchange, I Don't Like You

Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?" "Choosing." Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face. "I'm mine. Not anyone else's." "I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.

- Melissa Marr

topic: Girl, Shadow, Tears, Leslie, Ink Exchange

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.127

topic: Men, Thinking, Self, Ink Exchange

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

- Melissa Marr

source: Melissa Marr (2009). “Ink Exchange”, p.16, Harper Collins

topic: Pain, Fear, Talking, Ink Exchange, No Pain