Quote by Saskia Sarginson

“I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself. How it would feel to be back in my body again I couldn’t imagine.”

— Donna Tartt

“Sometimes, when you'd least expect it, the grief would chop your legs out from under you.”

— Emmy Laybourne

“Conversation that was lifeless, hollow, dry as bone.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from…

— Ken Kesey

“You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between…

— Elizabeth Knox

“I was no longer skin and flesh and bones. I was only feeling and sensation and pleasure coursing through my body over and over…

— T.M. Frazier

“I tentatively attempted to make contact with the muscles in my body. They told me to leave them the fuck alone.”

— Richelle Mead

“I fell into unconsciousness reflecting rather abstractly that I'd never even known that there were two bones in a man's forearm.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Everything he did was a physical thing.  When he spoke, my bones ached.  When he breathed, I felt it in my veins and on…

— Tyra Lynn

“I dropped the blood-coated chair leg and collapsed to my knees. I couldn’t swallow. I couldn’t breathe. I was splattered with blood. I’d never…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“I felt expendable, throw-away, swallowed by a big biological project that I didn't initiate or choose, that produced me but would also chew me…

— Lionel Shriver

“He was afraid that his body would come loose, all his bones spilling out like a building collapsing, like a picket fence clattering apart.”

— Robert Cormier