Quote by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

“A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“There was a scar on his neck, curved and ugly, almost a perfect half-moon.”

— Scott Cawthon

“Through the window a broken fingernail of moon was visible.”

— Graham Joyce

“It had to be tonight and it had to be moonless, because that was the only way a dangerous, borderline-psychotic insertion like this could…

— Brad Thor

“Any doctor will do in an emergency.”

— Cao Xueqin

“and thread, and even bandages, because he knew those at the clinic would not be sterile. The hospital was one of those communist-built structures…

— Trevor Scott

“Doctor Nolan had said, quite bluntly, that a lot of people would treat me gingerly, or even avoid me, like a leper with a…

— Sylvia Plath

“The doctor gave him two weeks to live. I'd give him more, if I could.”

— Jack Johnson

How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by…

— Marjorie M. Liu

“But the very next moment, the boy’s excitement all died away. An unfamiliar pain began in him, of a kind that he had never…

— Neil D'Silva

“It was then that the Boy went through his darkest hell of all: the long ache of his body, acute as it was, was…

— Mervyn Peake

“I eased into my chair like a ninety-year-old with hemorrhoids.”

— Al Macy