Communication Quote by Diane Chamberlain

“I felt dry as if someone had skinned me. I was not the bones and meat, but the cast-aside skin. The heat had hollowed…

— Sonya Hartnett

“Talking, talking, spinning like a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin.”

— John Gardner

“She hadn't understood what that cold moisture had been trying to say, as it drenched her battered body and spread through her dried-up veins.…

— Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“Her whole body ached; she ached, as if there were a terrible hollow emptiness inside her.”

— Cassandra Clare

“People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood…

— Alice Hoffman

“My soft voice and demeanor were useless. In a pint jar, I carried a cremated friend, like flesh scraped from a cistern.”

— Henri Cole

“a sound of breaking bones wrapped in tearing flesh.”

— Bobby Adair

“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.”

— Vanora Bennett

“Soon you'll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we…

— Marcus Aurelius

“What's still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?”

— Isaac Marion

“I've never read anything that could speak directly to my bones.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my…

— J.W. Lord