Quote by Hugh Howey

“When we were young his hands had been soft but now they were a man's hands, with rough palms and coarse fingertips, but they…

— Jessica Marie Gilliland

“I heard the footsteps of my fathers steel-toed boots as he left before the sun had risen and I thought for a moment that…

— Emily Curtis

“He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned…

— Ken Follett

“got to his naval when I noticed what I first believed to be just a case of bad feet. I was prepared to overlook…

— J. Thorn

“He felt like someone was using steel-toed boots to stomp grapes inside his stomach.”

— Maureen A. Miller

“Men tend to die when you slide steel beneath their skin and wiggle it around. Even priests.”

— Brian Staveley

“I watch his hands, his beautiful, capable fingers. Scarred, as mine were before the Capitol erased all marks from my skin, but strong and…

— Suzanne Collins

“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.”

— Robert Harris

“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and…

— Jane Addams

“Fingers with no dexterity and legs too weak to walk, the result of old age and tired old bones.”

— Ghillie

“A foot of steel looks as if it has been transformed into warm butter and gouged by the fingers of a child,”

— Anthony Doerr

“He was a big, bony man. Iron muscles shaped his jacket sleeves and quickly wore through new trousers. He had a way of imposing…

— Georges Simenon