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Quotes About Bones

Lilith have a quilt on her back, but there be a bigger quilt, a patchwork of negro bones that reach from the Africa to the West Indies.
~ Marlon James
We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
~ Martin Luther
Thank you. I haven't been able to eat much. Rawhide's meals lean toward tough, mostly burned meat. Maybe a good meal will help me regain some strength and knit these bones a bit faster.
~ Mary Connealy
The bones came out, the bones came out, the bones came out.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
Qué tienen los restos humanos que provocan un terror tan básico e irracional? Sólo eran huesos, los mismos huesos que llevamos dentro de nuestros cuerpos durante toda la vida formando nuestro esqueleto. ¿Por qué daban tanto miedo cuando no tenían carne encima? Quizá porque nos recordaban que no íbamos a vivir para siempre.
~ Unknown
segundo ele, o corpo era feito de tempo. Acabado o tempo que nos é devido, termina também o corpo. Depois de tudo, sobra o quê? Os ossos. O não-tempo, a nossa mineral essência. Se de alguma coisa temos que tratar bem é do esqueleto, nossa tímida e oculta eternidade.
~ Mia Couto
something that at first sight appeared to be the luminous bones of some massive, extinct creature, now disinterred, with its ribs gathered into a neat bundle around the thick stump of a massive spinal column which time and the elements had polished to such a cool ceramic gloss that if I were to leave my hand on it I would have been surprised if it felt like anything other than glass
~ Unknown
Sadness is what holds our bones in place.
~ Miriam Toews
1. Selfishness is a sect. Selfishness unites us, that is, it gains selfish supporters. 2. Life is a stupid movie that ends up idiotically. 3. Days are like dull dreams. 4. Karmic chaos is an educator and teacher of the evolution of a certain chrono dimension. 5. Bones as a tree of evolution as branches of thinking grow as many wheels in the tree will be. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown
Wreckage' Had my bones, like the sun, been splintered on this canyon wall and burned among these buckled plates, this bright debris; had it been so, I should not have lingered so long among my losses. I should have come loudly, like a warrior, to my time.
~ N. Scott Momaday
If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side.
~ Nalini Singh
Ten years was a long time for evidence to age and fade. For flesh to disappear. For everyone to forget that Nina Parvati Rai had been a living, breathing woman who'd loved music and cooking and had a mind like a computer. In another life she could have been a professor. In this life she'd been a rich man's wife. Now she was just bones.
~ Nalini Singh
Goats are naught but bones and bleating, and their hair was not warm nor their bodies soft. Of course, there was the smell, too, bitter as overripe vinegar, intrusive as bile.
~ Nancy E. Turner
Discretion was bred into the Shippens' bones Whatever arguments, embarrassments , or regrets the family expressed were hidden behind their handsomely polished front doors.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
estrogen is essential to the maturation and preservation of bones not only in women, as had been known, but also in men; that estrogen metabolism affects glucose metabolism and therefore the risk of diabetes; and that, contrary to dogma, estrogen is not essential to fetal survival. Fetal mice don't need it, and
~ Natalie Angier
estrogen is essential to the maturation and preservation of bones not only in women, as had been known, but also in men; that estrogen metabolism affects glucose metabolism and therefore the risk of diabetes; and that, contrary to dogma, estrogen is not essential to fetal survival. Fetal mice don't need it, and fetal humans don't need it.
~ Natalie Angier
This country's bones and flesh are made of rock and its blood is the ice-cold water of glacier melt.
~ Nicola Griffith
She did not mention her dream of the ammonite, snaking heavy and solid into the bones of her hand.
~ Nicola Griffith
Cranium fibula radius Sacrum patella carpus Nas?l ezberlenir Allah'?m Arapça dua eden insan?nn Latince kemikleri?
~ Unknown
peau nue contre la sienne, nue aussi, mais hélas ! nue comme sont nus les os.
~ Octave Mirbeau
Healer that she was, creator of medicines and poisons, binder of broken bones, comforter, could she take the remnants here and build them into a man again? Doro looked at people, healthy or ill, and wondered what kind of young they could produce. Anyanwu looked at the sick—especially those with problems she had not seen before—and wondered whether she could defeat their disease.
~ Octavia E. Butler
We collected all the bones we could find, and yesterday, Natividad wrapped them in a shawl that she had knitted years ago. It was the most beautiful thing she owned. "A thing like that should serve the living," Bankole said when she offered it. "You are living," Natividad said. "I like you. I wish I could have met your sister.
~ Octavia E. Butler
He was a strange lad—with a peculiar, dreamy air about him that made some think he was dim-witted. But he wasn't stupid—he just paid attention to other lessons. Bones
~ Pat Murphy
But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair.
~ Patricia A. McKillip