Bone Quotes

605 quotes by 520 authors

Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can… — Rumi
Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of… — Chuck Palahniuk
The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their… — Cormac McCarthy
Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could… — Jenny Downham
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone… — Douglas Adams
Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable… — Jeff Smith
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven. — Langston Hughes
The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never… — Steven Erikson
While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core.… — Masaru Emoto
I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a… — Truman Capote
Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes… — Mike Yaconelli
[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to… — Louise Fitzhugh
My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, â€œAll Southern literature can be summed up in these words: â€˜On the night the hogs ate… — Pat Conroy
Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter… — Diana Gabaldon
The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone,… — Jen Lancaster
Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. — Jodi Picoult
Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had… — Robin McKinley
I didnâ€™t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have… — Jennifer Weiner
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.… — Dani Shapiro
...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it. — Christina Dodd

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