Quote by Craig Raine

A jest breaks no bones

— Samuel Johnson

“A phantom pain lanced through his ribs, brutally violent and nauseating. His knees buckled. Not pain from a wound of his—but another’s. No. No,…

— Sarah J. Maas

“What happened then was that, for an instant, almost nothing happened. He wasn't even there. Failure didn't even cross his mind. It felt like…

— Colum McCann

“Ra warbled, ‘Hel-lo-o-o-o-o!’ and stumbled to his feet. He began”

— Rick Riordan

“I stood there, my head bowed, my shoulders hunched. This is how it feels to be dragged from the cement shoes of a comfortable…

— Deborah Smith

“Here I am pushing off the ground with a forward leg swing. Notice that my left leg is trailing behind my body and that…

— MacKenzie, Brian

“I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots of them…

— David Almond

“Returning to his Manhattan town house on Christmas Eve, Grant, sixty-one, pivoted to hand the driver a holiday tip when he slipped on the…

— Ron Chernow

“leg in an amputee. Over the centuries, medical treatment had become quite adept at fixing parts of the body that were broken: a shattered…

— John Burley

“but that in case of Dr. Jekyll's "disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months," the said Edward Hyde should step…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I hurt my hip, too.” “Let me see.” She made a face and yelped when her cheek protested even that slight movement. “You don’t…

— Joan Johnston

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

— Aesop