Creature Quote by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett

“The skeleton is just a way to keep your tissue off the floor.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite…

— G.K. Chesterton

“You will never be skeleton, when I am in ghost.”

— Anthony Liccione

“There are skeletons in this earth.”

— Corinne Duyvis

“It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.”

— Nadifa Mohamed

“I was a skeleton with flesh and clothes and thoughts.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the…

— Orson Scott Card

“There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.”

— Amanda Stevens

“The body as home, but only if it is understood that bodies are never singular, but rather haunted, strengthened, underscored by countless other bodies.”

— Eli Clare

“The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species at that.”

— Elizabeth Haynes

“The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straightjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh.…

— Leonora Carrington

“The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis