Ink Quotes

Getting ink felt right, like it would help her put her life in order, to move forwards. It was her body, despite the things that'd been done to it, and she wanted to claim it, to own it, to prove that to herself. She knew it wasn't magic, but the idea of writing her own identity felt like the closest she could get to reclaiming her life. Sometimes there's power in the act; sometimes there's strength in words. She wanted to find an image that represented those things she was feeling, to etch it on her skin as tangible proof of her decision to change.

~ Melissa Marr

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.

~ Jazz Feylynn

Let thy words be few. I agree, but only if my ink can relentlessly run.

~ Delano Johnson

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you've done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don't have to find yourself, you just have to let yourself in.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

~ Anthony Liccione

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

~ Alex Morritt

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is FOCUS...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Had I just made a date with a tatted up bat wielding miscreant?

~ Holly Hood

Memory is more indelible than ink.

~ Anita Loos

The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...

~ John Geddes

Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.

~ Megan Hart

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.

~ Jazz Feylynn

The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,created on paper canvas that brought the story to life.

~ Jazz Feylynn

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.

~ Sanober Khan

Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge.

~ Aberjhani

Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone.

~ Fennel Hudson

If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.

~ Fennel Hudson

A letter to the beloved is like the ink kissing the paper. (Une lettre à l'aimée, c'est - L'encre embrassant le papier)

~ Charles De Leusse

Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life.

~ Jazz Feylynn

Now relax, think positively and begin --- the smile of success awaits you.

~ Claudia Nice

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

~ Emily Post

The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.

~ Lemony Snicket

Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.''Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.

~ Jean-Christophe Valtat

I'm the old type setter who gets his blood poisoned from the ink.

~ Walt Holcombe

Whether this blood was daemon, human, or something else, it was still only blood, and blood was only the ink of life.

~ Gabrielle Harbowy

Oh, Narcissus! My heart beats ink for you.A pulse in every line.It's your eyesmy words want to be read by,your kind of mindthey would be understood by,your heartthey'd be felt by,and then you'd feel the same way that I do,if only these words could be read or heard by you.

~ Steven L. Sheppard

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

~ Mark Twain

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

~ Milton Friedman