“The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.” EarthFormSoundWaterBornFireBloodRocksColorArmsHeavyFleshShouldersSensualitySensualCrystalsThighsFlickerSupple Book:Out of silence: selected poems Source: Out of silence: selected poems
“Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.” PeopleIfsWorldWayFeelsPersonsDifferentReadingAbilityEnemyBloodMetsLonelyBraveFleshShouldersRelateDifferent PeoplesFlesh And Blood Author:Amy Poehler
“It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.” WayLooksLittlesI CanMomentsUseFeelingsLightNextFeltBloodStrangeBrokenTerribleSittingShouldersVersionsPlasticNotebookPhantoms Author:Neil Gaiman
“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug.” IfsKnowsWorldTryingStillsRunningLastsEffortSawsGreaterBloodArmsShouldersKneesGiantsChestsBoresTremblingAtlas Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)” EnjoyBornPayGenerationsBloodCostRiversCrossesShouldersCorpsesNew GenerationAlchemist Author:Hiromu Arakawa
“He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.” MadeEyeFacesNamesSoundBloodArmsMouthsWindowEarsBonesShouldersBuriedLaughedSaltHer EyesJaceSimplestLukeArdor Author:Cassandra Clare