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

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

— Holly Hood

He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple swings of the bat, he cleared me another path.

— Holly Hood

I am feeling more. I feel everything more. Furthermore, I cannot express it. Furthermore, I can hardly keep track of it all. It is you! All you! Everything!

— Dawn Metcalf

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

— John Geddes

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

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If life’s pen passion is ink!

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

I'll always be the yearning poet bleeding ink chasing stars drunk on dreams.

— Melody Lee