Bones Quotes - Page 3

• A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

  Jessamyn West

  Broken Heart, Forever, Heal

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

  Alice Sebold

  Way, Cameras, Moments

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

  Alice Sebold

  Quilts, Hands, Color

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan

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• Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

  Nathan Deal

  Cells, Blood, Adults

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• Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

  Ruby Wax

  Mother, Kids, Life Is Hard

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• I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

  Karen Duffy

  Eye, Feet, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

  Anita Diament

  Writing, Lines, Littles

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• Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

  Alice Sebold

  Pain, Stories, Lost

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it

  Kylie Bax

  Shoulders, I Can

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• Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Heart, Oxygen

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• A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

  John Cheever

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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  Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

  Redd Foxx

  Beauty, Beautiful, Words Of Wisdom

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• I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

  Cassandra Clare

  Badass, Simon Lewis, City Of Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?' Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself." ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland." "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.

  Cassandra Clare

  Interesting, Worry, Rejection

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• "When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

  Alice Sebold

  Done, Goes On, Said

  "The Lovely Bones". Book by Alice Sebold, 2002.

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• I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

  Alice Sebold

  Beautiful, Running, Eight

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

  Alice Sebold

  Long, Gone, Someone You Love

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• Throw em a bone and they want a steak.

  Drake

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Ems

  Drizzy @Drake, twitter.com. November 2, 2011.

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• That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

  Meredith Monk

  Honesty, Voice, Never Quit

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

  Rihanna

  Bullying, Dry Bones, Useless Life

  Song: S&M, Album: Loud

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• Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

  Jose Marti

  Air, Essence, Wings

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• Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

  Miller Williams

  War, Eye, Compassion

  Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

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• While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

  Garth Brooks

  Baseball, Song, Writing

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• No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Blood, Way

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• What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Dog, Pet, Arms

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