Quote by Hanif Kureishi

“fingernails were torn out with pliers.”

— Stephan Talty

“I had to claw back into the world, dig in no matter if my nails cracked and bled, hold on with everything I had.”

— Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas

“You are perfect. Your fingernails drive me crazy.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“And I’d have you know, through all of it, I still had perfect nails! Because I am completely swell.”

— Sarah Scheele

“So there were people who got up at noon, pared their toenails, and sat naked in hotel rooms without regarding each day as an…

— Erica Jong

“When I walked into the room, I looked down to the floor and saw that each and every garment I owned had been pulled…

— Rasmenia Massoud

“Fingernails filling with silt, scraping the sculpted...”

— Cleopatra Mathis

“There was dirt under my fingernails for the first fourteen years of my life. It has most likely seeped into my blood.”

— Robin LaFevers

“It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell…

— Allison Hoover Bartlett

“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to your face.…

— Richard K. Morgan

“I'd be more open than a book too. My spine would crack, I'd fall out in halves.”

— Tamara Faith Berger

“The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked.”

— Michael Connelly