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• Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”.

  Lauren Oliver

  Spring, Heart, Ravens

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Needs, Looks, Stories

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• I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why the girl has just been taken hostage, but everyone seems to be acting like having a TALKING SKELETON in the room is perfectly normal. And you, where are your eyes? How can you see? How come the only people with eyes in this room are me and her?

  Derek Landy

  Girl, Sorry, Taken

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• If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

  Eminem

  Nuts, Insane, Bed

  Song: Insane, Album: Relapse, 2009

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• I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Lying, Bird

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• in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Night, Skins, Biographies

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• I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.

  Marlene Zuk

  Beautiful, Mean, Moral

  Marlene Zuk (2011). “Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Grace, Doctrine, Offensive

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 194), 1895.

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• Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Taken, Men, Ankles

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• It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled magnitude are found in great numbers, some lying on the surface of the earth, and some a little below it ... But to whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain that such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Animal, Ohio

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• Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Men, Thinking, Lakes

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• The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.

  Storm Jameson

  Writing, Reality, Impossible

  Storm Jameson (1933). “No time like the present”

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• From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

  Willa Cather

  Sea, Feet, World

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, U of Nebraska Press

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• You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

  Eliza Coupe

  Writing, Elements, Objectives

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

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• Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Trying, Doe

  "The horror that is XML". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. March 7, 2002.

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• It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, "Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this."

  Nick Swardson

  Character, Want, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Thinking, Silence

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.

  David Crystal

  Book, Fall, Focus

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• The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Moving, Writing, Play

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• I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Beautiful, Children, Ultrasounds

  "Stellan Skarsgård: 'I'm a castrated bull'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2012.

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• What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Essence, Obvious Things

  "Salman Rushdie brings 'Midnight's Children' to big screen". Interview with Matt Carey, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

  Drew Goddard

  Stories, Easier, Process

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• I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Becoming, Scared, Scientist

  "Sept.10, 1941: Stephen Jay could born" Jess McNally, www.wired.com. September 10, 2010.

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• You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Believe, Fighting, Past

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

  Casey Abrams

  Thinking, Want, Way

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