Quote by Jonathan Stroud Download Open image ““Never touch a mummified body part if you don’t know where it’s been. That’s my motto.”” — Jonathan Stroud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I was totally aware of that one spot [where she touched me] more than I'd been aware of anything in my whole life.” — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
“Unless you’ve touched a corpse before, you can’t comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother’s… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Do you know what happens to scar tissue? it's the stongest part of the skin.” — Michael R. Mantell Copy Share Image
“Touch my things again, whether I'm dead or not, and I'll kick your ass up into your shoulder blades.” — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
“In her bones, this may still be her country. But she will not touch it with her hands the way I do, trying to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“When you were born you didn’t know that you had a body, let alone that you should be ashamed of it.” — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
“That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your… — Iain Thomas Copy Share Image
“Shall I check into convenient spots to bury a body?' 'You never know when a nice soft piece of ground may be useful.” — Claudia J. Edwards Copy Share Image
“Let's have the baddish one first,' George said. 'I prefer my misery to come at me in stages, so I can acclimatize on the… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“You think so?" The boy looked down at his cross-legged form. He was sitting straight-backed, legs folded neatly in the manner of an Egyptian… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“This is what the Problem means,” he went on. “This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones taken before their time. And… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn,… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names!… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Do you remember,” George went on, “what we found in the tunnels beneath Aickmere’s? Aside from a massive pile of human bones.” “I found” — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized. the boy watched them disappear under the hanging white thatch of hair. There, almost coyly,… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“John Mandrake was an attractive young man, and the scent of power hung about him, sweet and intoxicating, like honeysuckle in the evening air.” — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“George,' I croaked, 'are you okay?' 'No. Someone's buttocks are flattening my foot.' I shifted my position irritably.” — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
