Your Bones Quotes
110 quotes by 101 authors
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing…
— Mary Oliver
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Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to…
— Janet Fitch
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The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come…
— Pablo Neruda
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Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a brick…
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother,…
— Amy Tan
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it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.
— Charles Bukowski
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it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
— Tom Waits
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How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see…
— Amy Tan
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash…
— Bruce Lee
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It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does everyone know that you are a dog,…
— Nancy Willard
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Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is…
— Thrity Umrigar
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Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its…
— Julia Quinn
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You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can assure…
— Teresa Medeiros
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Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.
— Jim Butcher
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Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.
— N.D. Wilson
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Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can…
— Francesca Lia Block
Who Wrote These Your Bones Quotes
101 authors contributed a total of 110 Your Bones Quotes, led by these top contributors: