Skeleton Quotes
115 quotes by 101 authors
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Hey," Dopey said when I was finished reading. "How come they never mentioned me? I'm the one who found the skeleton." "Oh, yeah," Sleepy said…
— Meg Cabot
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Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled…
— Lauren Oliver
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I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to…
— John Green
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Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and…
— Isaac Marion
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I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.
— Mary Roach
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Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame
— Virginia Woolf
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I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
— Jack Kerouac
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Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on…
— Daniel Handler
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Right," I scoffed, "Alpha Yam Ergo." Adrian nodded solemnly. "A very old and prestigious society." "I've never heard of them," said the girl who'd claimed…
— Richelle Mead
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Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will…
— Chinua Achebe
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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of…
— A. E. Housman
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China is the same age as I am, and even I have to admit that she wears it better!" He laughed, then stopped and peered…
— Derek Landy
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She’s not… She’s not datin’ the skeleton, is she? How would that be even possible, let alone… nice? He’s got no skin, or lips, or……
— Derek Landy
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A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?
— Derek Landy
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After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as…
— Zeresenay Alemseged
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The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
— Drew Goddard
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In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing…
— Peter Baynham
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My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.
— Michael Douglas
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I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material,…
— Antony Beevor
Who Wrote These Skeleton Quotes
101 authors contributed a total of 115 Skeleton Quotes, led by these top contributors: