--- title: "1 City of bones Quotes By Marcus Speh" description: "1 City of bones quotes by Marcus Speh. Plus more from Marcus Speh and more City of bones sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95f/marcus-speh-57372_bomb_i-am-a-bomb-but-i-mean-you-no-harm-that_3010458.jpg" --- > [“I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I was deployed on May 15, 1957, but I didn’t go off because a British nuclear engineer, a young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-speh/i-am-a-bomb-but-i-mean-you-no-harm-that-i-still-am-here-to-tell-this/) [Marcus Speh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-speh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95f/marcus-speh-57372_bomb_i-am-a-bomb-but-i-mean-you-no-harm-that_3010458.jpg) ## Other authors on City of bones - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 38 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/city-of-bones/cassandra-clare/) ## More by Marcus Speh > [“Suddenly, the wind got hold of the hammock. Leaves murmured. It was cold and the sun had gone down.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-speh/suddenly-the-wind-got-hold-of-the-hammock-leaves-murmured-it-was-cold/) [Marcus Speh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-speh/) > [“The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest stories, was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-speh/the-serious-writer-was-aware-of-a-paradox-at-the-heart-of-his-art-his/) [Marcus Speh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-speh/) > [“Gerbert, by the window, shuddered; his mouth contorted. The witch began to twist faster and faster while her twin was talking to Gisela, mumbling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-speh/gerbert-by-the-window-shuddered-his-mouth-contorted-the-witch-began/) [Marcus Speh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-speh/) > [“Using something real does not destroy the fantastical; it underlines it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-speh/using-something-real-does-not-destroy-the-fantastical-it-underlines-it/) [Marcus Speh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-speh/) > [“That night, Gregory dreamt of his mother. It was a dream that he'd have carried to his therapist like a raw, precious egg if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-speh/that-night-gregory-dreamt-of-his-mother-it-was-a-dream-that-he-d-have/) [Marcus Speh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-speh/) > [“I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I was deployed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-speh/i-am-a-bomb-but-i-mean-you-no-harm-that-i-still-am-here-to-tell-this/) [Marcus Speh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-speh/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/city-of-bones/marcus-speh/#itemlist", "name": "1 City of bones Quotes By Marcus Speh", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I was deployed on May 15, 1957, but I didn’t go off because a British nuclear engineer, a young father, developed qualms after seeing pictures of native children marveling at the mushrooms in the sky, and sabotaged me. I could see why during that short drop before I hit the atoll: the island looks like god’s knuckles in a bathtub, the ocean is beautifully translucent, corals glow underwater, a dead city of bones, allowing a glimpse into a white netherworld. I met the water and fell a few feet into a chromatic cemetery. The longer I lie here, listening to my still functioning electronic innards, the more afraid I grow of detonating after all this time. 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