Quote by Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas

“And I’d have you know, through all of it, I still had perfect nails! Because I am completely swell.”

— Sarah Scheele

“fingernails were torn out with pliers.”

— Stephan Talty

“I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?”

— Elaine Dundy

“I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means of…

— Will Advise

“Yes, I'm tough as nails, got a heart of steel I will never fear for I will never feel.”

— Hal Ketchum

“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Sometimes I stand in the grass barefooted and let the Earth heal me.”

— Christophe Barton

“You’re only helpless when your nails are drying and even then I’m sure you could still pull the trigger if you had to.”

— T.K. Leigh

“Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague,” but we did our nails anyway.”

— Margaret Atwood

“There was dirt under my fingernails for the first fourteen years of my life. It has most likely seeped into my blood.”

— Robin LaFevers

“If you were careful, if you were a proper part of things, then you could help. You mended what was cracked. You tended to…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Your nails upon my back wrote a chronicle in blood.”

— Muhammad Ijaz Ul Haq