Skeleton Quotes
115 quotes by 101 authors
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There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of…
— Charles Dickens
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...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret…
— Mary Doria Russell
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Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve…
— Julian Barnes
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe…
— Sherman Alexie
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Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them…
— David Sedaris
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You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry." -Bobby
— D. J. MacHale
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These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in…
— Sherman Alexie
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Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive…
— Primo Levi
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If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at…
— Rita Dove
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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in…
— Willa Cather
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Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll…
— Frederick Buechner
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There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf,…
— Juliet Marillier
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I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why the girl has just…
— Derek Landy
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He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect…
— Ray Bradbury
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Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead.†“Of course he’s dead. He’s a skeleton.
— Derek Landy
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Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some…
— Laini Taylor
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Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And…
— Richelle Mead
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We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We…
— Charles Dickens
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So what does Tod look like? Whitewashed skeleton skulking around in a black cape and hood? Carrying a scythe? 'Cause I'm thinking that would cause…
— Rachel Vincent
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What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried…
— Mark Haddon
Who Wrote These Skeleton Quotes
101 authors contributed a total of 115 Skeleton Quotes, led by these top contributors: