Old house Quote by Ismail Kadare

“a sound of breaking bones wrapped in tearing flesh.”

— Bobby Adair

“Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs, I tell them. Up,…

— Margaret Atwood

Pain is a new room in your house.

— Willa Gibbs

“I feel brittle, like I’m made of glass and all of my cracks are beginning to show.”

— Amy A. Bartol

“I hear him in the creak and groan of the floorboards as the summer nights stretch them, can visualize him sitting at the foot…

— Emily Henry

In our house, all you hear is groaning.

— James Ensor

Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of…

— Christopher Isherwood

“But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of…

— Virginia Woolf

“It starts as a little nagging noise inside my skull, reminding me of what I think I know, and what I can never ever…

— Ashly Lorenzana

“Your words are hurting me very badly; I can feel it inside my bones.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Ouch,' she mumbles. 'Somebody's superglued my joints.”

— Steven Hall

“I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.”

— Amy Tintera