Bone Quotes
605 quotes by 520 authors
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Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly,…
— Jeanette Winterson
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My own apathy is bone chilling.
— Lionel Shriver
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Are you okay?" I sighed,my sodden coat chilling me to the bone. "Peachy.Made a new friend." He pulled me up by the hand,unzipping my coat…
— Kiersten White
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The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never…
— Henry Miller
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And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone…
— Michele Jaffe
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Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all…
— Dorianne Laux
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I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken…
— Kristin Hannah
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The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not…
— Harry Crews
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No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them.…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.
— Ted Hughes
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For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry lectures regarding soil…
— Tessa Dare
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No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by seeing who can break more of…
— Rachel Vincent
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It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.
— Alexandra Adornetto
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To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to…
— Etgar Keret
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and…
— Ellen Hopkins
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She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be…
— Steven Levenkron
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Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
— Allen Ginsberg
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On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One blood in…
— Patrick Rothfuss
Who Wrote These Bone Quotes
520 authors contributed a total of 605 Bone Quotes, led by these top contributors: