Bones Quote by Anonymous

“It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.”

— Nadifa Mohamed

“her, and glanced at the fire, and behind it. He picked out dozens of skulls, with the mounds of bones that lay next to…

— Enes Smith

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“They found him late that night. He was floating head-down in the benjo, the long, deep trench of rain-churned shit that served as the…

— Richard Flanagan

“Then a skeleton came out from among the trees. It was the skeleton of a Union soldier, though the uniform it wore was so…

— Irene Hunt

“He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to…

— Cormac McCarthy

“at the bottom of the waiting grave. He picked up the shovel and set about filling in the hole. He labored for some time,…

— Rayven T. Hill

“There are skeletons in this earth.”

— Corinne Duyvis

“The skeleton picked up the second skull, so worn as to barely be recognisable as such. The vertebrae fell and rolled like beads from…

— J.A. Clement

“Strangest of all, however, was the deep recess in the creature’s skull; it looked almost like a bowl, with water sloshing around inside.”

— Bella Forrest

“The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straightjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh.…

— Leonora Carrington

“The crying wailed, somewhere beneath the planks. Several sweeps of the light showed that the cellar was otherwise deserted. Though the face mouthed behind…

— Ramsey Campbell