My Bones Quotes
176 My Bones quotes by 142 unique authors
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
— Jenny Downham
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I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of…
— David Levithan
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I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.
— Philip Roth
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I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation and I had…
— Maria V. Snyder
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them…
— Jacob Grimm
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..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.
— Mark Haddon
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I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.
— Sylvia Plath
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I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats,…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me…
— Lauren Oliver
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I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones…
— Malorie Blackman
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My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
— David Foster Wallace
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He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything…
— Gena Showalter
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We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.
— Ann Aguirre
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And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every…
— John Green
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Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
— Theodore Roethke
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Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.
— Jim Butcher
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If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.
— Sarah Kane
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I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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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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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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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
Who Wrote These My Bones Quotes
142 authors contributed a total of 176 My Bones Quotes, led by these top contributors: