Degrees Quote by Anonymous

The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine…

— Megan Abbott

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

— Aimee Bender

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't,…

— Dick York

The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I…

— Anonymous

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and…

— Bill Walton

Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it…

— Jerome Groopman

Looking back, I call the first month after my diagnosis 'the cancer bubble' because I wasn't showing obvious signs of my disease. I looked…

— Suleika Jaouad

I developed osteoporosis of the personality. My thought processes became brittle.

— Mac O'Grady

Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I…

— Ally Carter

“her spine was the crease on a piece of paper, her bones no more than diagonal folds on a bit of origami”

— Lisa Mantchev

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of…

— Poppy Z. Brite

I have no history but the length of my bones.

— Robin Skelton