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“shrapnel fizzed around the room. A splinter buried itself in Gray’s buttock, stinging like a hornet, and”

— Alan McDermott

“Sometimes the hardest shells hid the softest hearts.”

— Anna Hackett

“Two broken shards, two drained batteries, two men who were merely shells. What”

— Cambria Hebert

“The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed.”

— e lockhart

“You see, like a tortoise withdraws itself into its shell for protection, we, too, sometimes have to build a wall around ourselves. Maybe it…

— Amita Trasi

“I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have…

— Markus Zusak

“When the mess truck moved on, we made our way back to my gun position and sat on the edge of the innerspring mattress…

— Edgar D. Whitcomb

“Down every hall is a gruesome tangle of impossible creatures, and every one of them is split open or strung with barbs or dragging…

— Bill Blais

“The shells had landed on the cobblestone road. "Sonsofbitches," Wiseman muttered. We looked up and grinned at each other. "Here they come again!" Sitting…

— David Kenyon Webster

“[...]And his head is on fire with new things[...]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new…

— Terry Pratchett

“One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where shrapnel wounded…

— Richard Flanagan

“A heart of fire in a shell of ice.”

— Francine du Plessix Gray