Invisible Ink Quotes

• The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Blank Mind, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.379, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Ink

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• Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Blood, Tears, Fiction

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• You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

  Margaret Atwood

  Keys, Snow, Body

  "The Blind Assassin". Book by Margaret Atwood, September 2, 2000.

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• In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

  Arthur Koestler

  Book, Grace, Ink

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• Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's in invisible ink and it will show up later. They totally buy it. It saves me a fortune in markers.

  Zach Braff

  Kids, Fake, Ink

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• The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

  Sarah Schulman

  Wind, Ink, Magazines

  Sarah Schulman (2006). “Empathy”, Arsenal Pulp PressLtd

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