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I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china,…

— Christien Meindertsma

“And then there’s its hair,” Justin said, pushing the vegetables across to me. “Don’t forget the hair. It’s horrible.” “It’s wearing a dead person’s…

— Tana French

“What's bred in the bones, when you have bones, comes through. And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of…

— Katherine Dunn

“What is Aunt Margaret made of? Bird bones and tissue paper, spun glass and straw.”

— Angela Carter

“Do you know where most skeletons come from?" "When a mommy skeleton loves a daddy skeleton very much...”

— Leigh Perry

“The long bone beads used in the breastplate were called hair pipes. They were used as a medium of exchange in trading. The finer…

— W. Ben Hunt

“Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Ed Lim’s daughter, Monique, was a junior now, but as she’d grown up, he and his wife had noted with dismay that there were…

— Celeste Ng

Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they…

— Pablo Picasso

“He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it.”

— Arnaldur Indridason

“What’s left of what your body was —once the girl with bare shoulder blades , giggling, once the girl galloping an imaginary horse, once…

— Ava Dellaira

“Put some make-up on me and I look not unlike a china doll. Put me in a puffy pink dress and I look delicate,…

— Laurell K. Hamilton