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Quotes About Bones

His brittle, yellowed bones were splintered, crushed and shattered.
~ Steven Erikson
This is where our bones will rest, humps and ripples in the sand. Then, one day, even those signs will be gone. We've reached the shore, where Hood awaits and no one else. A journey of the spirit as much as of the flesh. I welcome the end to both.
~ Steven Erikson
Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful.
~ Steven Levenkron
The land he crossed was cracked and withered, much like his skin. The wind blew hard along the gullies, whipping up sand and scrub. There were no miracles in this place, least of all miracles of life. Dust and bones, sand and souls; that was the way of it. How
~ Steven Savile
In her heart, the dark red of her wedding dress was the deep bloodied shade of mourning, heavy with lilies of the grave, and her hair was spiked with bleached bones. It must be Everna putting these thoughts in her head. She liked to talk about death, and seemed to find it more romantic than love.
~ Storm Constantine
The shapes in the shadows uttered tittering chimes of thin bones clattering together in the breeze.
~ Storm Constantine
Invoking ancient entities is bad for the bones!
~ Storm Constantine
What should I feel after carving my bones? peeling off my skin? after sculpted my soul and damaging my fervour, just as the way you desire your appetite must be.Abandoned, forsaken, empty, perhaps..
~ ehddah
Where does violence go, if not directly back into our blood and bones?
~ Miriam Toews
But beauty is more, after all, than bones, for, while bones belong to death and endure after decay, beauty is a living thing.
~ Nancy Mitford
Vampires like fairies the way dogs like bones : great toys , good food.
~ Charlaine Harris
I fall down all the time because I'm such a klutz, but I have never broken a bone, and I don't eat milk or cheese ever. I like tofu cheese and soymilk in my coffee and cereal.
~ Grace Slick
Did we not all grow up saying we had to have four glasses of whole milk a day for healthy bones? It's ridiculous. It's liquid cholesterol.
~ Steve Wynn
Back home, I ate Bojangles chicken with Bird and watched a rerun of 'Bones.' For some reason, the cat is nuts about Hodgins. (From Dr. Tempe Brennan in "Bones Never Lie" by Kathy Reichs. It made me chuckle!)
~ Kathy Reichs
While I inventoried, identifying bones and separating right and left sides, Emma shot more photos. Then she disappeared with the skull, jaw, and isolated teeth to make dental X-rays. I was turning my attention to gender when Emma reappeared. I suspected the victim was male, since most bones were large and carried robust muscle attachments. "Ready for sex?" I asked. "Got a headache." Yep. I liked this woman. Picking up a pelvic half, I pointed to the front.
~ Kathy Reichs
Fossils do not require long ages to form. In fact, they must form quickly, otherwise the organism's softer tissues and even bones suffer decay (shells or teeth enamel naturally take longer to disintegrate).
~ Ken Ham
Since the atoms are indestructible, the disintegration of human body after death should be actually considered as the dispersion of the separate filaments (except probably those forming the bones) in all different directions.
~ George Gamow
Look, she gave me a new sword." Curran peered at it. "It looks like Slayer." "That's because they're both made of her bones." "Your sword is made out of your grandmother's bones?" "Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that tone of voice . .
~ Ilona Andrews
It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate.
~ Ilona Andrews
She frowned. "So twisting bones out of your sockets is the way he demonstrates his displeasure at being pushed around?
~ Ilona Andrews
Se mantenían invisibles, pero empezamos a oír el llamado lúgubre de la trutuca y de los pilloi, una flauta que hacen con huesos de las piernas de sus enemigos
~ Isabel Allende
I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.
~ John Hodgman
The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.
~ Rebecca Wells
Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.
~ Du Fu