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His jaw was swollen. A thick red bruise quickly began forming, tracing the outline of an unfamiliar fist and uninvited rings. His tooth had…

— Jacob

He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“He bit his fingernails. He bit his toenails. He pulled tiny green threads from his shirt and tried flossing his teeth. Then he tried…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“He'd been inside of a storm, all right. He'd been swept up in a tornado of sex and memory, naked regret and short-lived ecstasy.…

— Nancy Pickard

“He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its way through…

— Grace Paley

“His gums stopped bleeding and his skin cleared up.”

— Graham Parke

“If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and…

— Scott Lynch

There was something sweet in watching him pull himself back together, restoring the façade he wore for the world while I knew at least…

— Sylvia Day

“Soda was glaring at him. “Leave my kid brother alone, you hear? It ain’t his fault he likes to go to the movies, and…

— S.E. Hinton

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

— Lou Reed

“ . . . he thought how easy it would be to simply kick his typewriter onto the floor and smash it to pieces…

— Bodie Thoene

“Though he could not remember how he had been injured or how long he had been unconcious, his first thought was to call the…

— Michael Buckley