Bones Quotes
1518 quotes by 1080 authors
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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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His flesh took paleness from his bones.
— Ray Bradbury
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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.
— Barry Lyga
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I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
— Alan Moore
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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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We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the…
— Gabriela Mistral
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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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Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like…
— Cormac McCarthy
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But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that…
— Laurie R. King
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In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will…
— William L. Shirer
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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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Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece. (Itkovian)
— Steven Erikson
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Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into…
— Isaac Marion
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Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.
— Isaac Marion
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Maybe some hidden, fragmented part of me had feared that if I admitted to Bones how much he truly meant to me, then I'd be…
— Jeaniene Frost
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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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In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized.…
— China Mieville
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A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and…
— Rachel Carson
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You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,†he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.
— Cassandra Clare
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