Quote by Gabriel Tallent Download Open image ““the lattice of bones, the grooved condyles like volute woodwork,”” — Gabriel Tallent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The granularity of bones in a body. A forest with galaxies of moss.” — Sneha Subramanian Kanta Copy Share Image
“Of bones the city is made, Plastered with flesh and blood, Where decay and death are deposited, And pride, and ingratitude.” — Dhammapada Copy Share Image
“Something breaks under my boot, and I know before I look down what I’ll see. Bones. Human skulls, femurs, ribs. The bones of otherthings… — Caitlin Kittredge Copy Share Image
“The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation’s leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“something that at first sight appeared to be the luminous bones of some massive, extinct creature, now disinterred, with its ribs gathered into a neat bundle around the thick stump of a massive spinal column which time and the elements had polished to such a cool ceramic gloss that if I were to leave my hand on it I would… — Mike McCormack Copy Share
“Eating The Bones by Ellen Bass The women in my family strip the succulent flesh from broiled chicken, scrape the drumstick clean; bite off the cartilage chew the gristle, crush the porous swellings at the ends of each slender baton. With strong molars they split the tibia, sucking out the dense marrow. They use up love, they swallow every dark… — Ellen Bass Copy Share
“i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“the boards of oaken floors polished to such a degree the furniture was reflected in them like architecture placed at the edge of vast… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“When it came time to die, we knew and went to deep yards where we lay down and our bones turned to brass. We were picked over. We were used to fix broken clocks, music boxes; our pelvises were fitted onto pinions, our spines soldered into cast works. Our ribs were fitted as gear teeth and tapped and clicked like… — Paul Harding Copy Share
“The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“She leaves parts of herself unnamed and unexamined, and then he will name them, and she will see herself clearly in his words and… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“She just wants to build a garden and water it and have everything grow and everything stay alive and she does not want to… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“He has a way of watching her that makes her feel as if she is the most important thing in the world.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“she is a person like him, but she is not him, nor is she just a part of him” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“I told him how we were washed out to sea and how it was like making furious love to a clash of orgiastic rhinos… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“I want to survive this. She is surprised by the depth and clarity of her desire.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“At his best, we are more than all right. At his best he rises above all of it and he is more than any… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“Dude, with your voice you are like, 'Look at all these books I've read,' but with your eyes you are like, 'Help me.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“domestic competence utterly alien to her, a kind of miracle. He is saying, “I am in love with George Eliot! My god! Middlemarch! That… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“You are supposed to come to the door and believe that hell awaits just on the other side, believe that this house is full… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“Hold tight to the world and do not let go and do not fuck this up.” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“She needs to get up and go home. She knows it, but she just doesn’t go” — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
