Bones Quotes
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.48, Penguin
Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1628, Simon and Schuster
D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.417, Cambridge University Press
"The search for Greater Albania" by Paulin Kola, Hurst, London, (p. 1), 2003.
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor
Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.
Song: S&M, Album: Loud
Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”
Song: Better Way, 2006
Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.
Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.874
Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.33, Counterpoint Press