Children Of Blood And Bone Quotes

“You crushed us to build your monarchy on the backs of our blood and bone. Your mistake wasn't keeping us alive. it was thinking we'd never fight back”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Good hearts don't leave scars like that.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Children of Blood and Bone was written during a time where I kept turning on the news and seeing stories of unarmed black men, women, and children being shot by the police. I felt afraid and angry and helpless, but this book was the one thing that made me feel like I could do something about it. I told myself that if just one person could read it and have their hearts or minds changed, then I would've done something meaningful against a problem that often feels so much bigger than myself.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“You have your duty and your heart. To chose one means the other must suffer.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Love is too strong, too intense, for what I feel. For what I am allowed to feel.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Power is not the answer. It will only intensify the fight.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Your ignorance will be your downfall. Magic or not, we won't give up. Magic or not, we will take back what's ours!”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Count to ten," I whisper to myself. "Count. To. Ten." Becuase when I finish counting, this horror shall end.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“I rest my forehead against hers, and we sit in a comfortable silence, translating our love through touch. The Princess and the Warrior, I decide in my head. When they tell the story of tomorrow, that is what they shall call it.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Those are Father's words, Inan. His decisions. Not yours. We are our own people. We make our own choices.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“I release the throwing knife as something I can't place deflates in my chest. It sinks like disappointment.

It breathes like relief.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Even in the darkest times the gods are always there.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Congratulations Tomi Adeyemi on your breakout novel CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE. A project catching fire, such as this one has, is the hope (not a guarantee) of every storyteller. Hemingway said it best, 'It is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― A.K. Kuykendall