Quotes About Bones

Ben, one of the four werewolf guards for the night, ate a big bite, swallowed, and said in a prissier-than-usual version of his British accent, "Mercy, when you say it gnawed on the bones, was it trying to get at the marrow or just cleaning its teeth?

Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.

One by one, two by two, the Hardesty witches are traveling through. With a storm of curses, they call from their tomes; they will drink your blood and dine on your bones.

The bones meant that I had broken faith with the vampires and was no longer under their protection—and anyone offering me aid of any kind was likely to find themselves on the wrong side of the vampires as well.

I made my choice and I regret it to this day. Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary. It comes to a person most clearly when he has daughters.

The bones of the Kiowa warriors did not lie in the earth but in the stories of their lives, told and retold—their bravery and daring, the death of Britt Johnson and his men, and Cicada, the little girl taken from them by the Indian Agent, Three Spotted's little blue-eyed girl. In his will the Captain asked to be buried with his runner's badge. He had kept it since 1814. He said he had a message to deliver, contents unknown

What makes the tyger poisonous and dangerous is the poison in its bones!

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

But more than that was the strangeness she felt here, the deep, unscratchable itch, the nagging wrongness written into her bones. It was as though there had been a compass in her, hidden and unknown yet totally fundamental to her sense of the world, and now that compass no longer had a north to point at.

And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”

God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.

So David had the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan brought from there, along with the bones of those who had been hanged.

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saulís father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ëA son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.í”

After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the manís body into Elishaís tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.

He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.

“Let him rest,” said Josiah. “Do not let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.