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“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!”

Life Pain Fighting Winning Forget Pride Losing Concerned Skins Lays Bones Flesh Opponents Martial Arts Escaping Winning And Losing Fracture

Book:Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.”

Stuff Class Pages Bones Jace Slaughter Clary Fray Beginners Flipped Fray

Book:City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does everyone know that you are a dog, they know what kind of a dog you are, who you run with, where you hide your bones, the accidental piddle behind the couch, the fight you got into with the boxer, and your thoughts on the hot poodle down the street.”

Knows Kind Doe Running Used Fighting Behinds Streets Dog Internet Hot Bones Used To Be Couches Boxers Poodles

Author:Nancy Willard

“I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Feels Mind Humans Heart Faces Artist Order Turns Figures Draws Paint Bones Painter Crafts Muscles Superficial Heart And Mind Anatomy Human Faces

Author:Irving Stone

“She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.”

Humans Eye Film Dies Hurt Bears Creatures Affair Ill Bones Flesh Customs Mortality Nerves Steel Polite Vulgar Ache Blades Pretty Words Grimace

Book:Emily Dickinson: Everyman's Poetry

Source: Emily Dickinson: Everyman's Poetry

“"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"”

Said Done Goes On Bones Lovely Bones

Author:Alice Sebold

“What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.”

Mean Lost Gone Bones Lovely Rays Frozen Lovely Bones

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.”

Instruments Bones Cups Mortals Bowls Jace Toilets Shadowhunters Isabelle Lightwood

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. "These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-" "No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones." "Awww.”

Way Humans Said Decided Bones Staring Amy

Book:The 39 Clues 1: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones

Source: The 39 Clues 1: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones

“Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.”

Wells Body Happens Eye Lying Grief One Day Skins Weight Deeper Bones Wounds Shoulders Heal Hips Openness Sheer Angle Penetrate Geography Texture Your Smile Sharpness Luster

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)”

Different Growing Up Growing Findings Bones Looking Back Finding Out The Truth Growing Things

Book:Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red”

Heart Night White Silence Blood Cry Solitude Moon Shadow Red Hatred Shining Instinct Bones Hungry Sigh Frozen Piercings Bleach Beastly Thawing

Author:Tite Kubo

“Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can and do without when necessary, and hope to God you won't be wiped out by something you can't control. But there are moments it hurts, where there is something you want in the very marrow of your bones and you know there is no way you can have it.”

People Thinking Knows Way Want Moments Choices Hurt Poor Too Much Bones It Hurts Poor People Life Choices Marrow

Book:Sugar Daddy: Number 1 in series

Source: Sugar Daddy: Number 1 in series

“Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.”

Source: 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

“Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast ‘em, fry and roast ‘em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy!”

Light Eye Lying Night Dies Black Tree Sky Hair Skins Delight Bones Smell Fats Hey Ems Cracks Beard Toasts Torches Dwarves Ferns

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!”

Men Stills Water Wealth White Growing Singing Bones Grass Dragons Cherish Valleys Trusted Crowns Thrones Withered Armour Splendour White Water

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?”

“All knowledge hurts.”

Hurt Experience Bones

Book: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

Source: 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

“All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.”

Persons Book Jobs Lasts America Loses Ability Broken Balance Gay Bones Sparks Denied Last Time Orientation Plugs Being Gay Broken Bone

Author:William J. Clinton

“Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones.”

Ifs Love Heart Sometimes Blood Dog Lucky Shadow Skins Deeper Bones Twins Snoop Dog

Author:Snoop Dogg

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”

Source: Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again

“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.”

Mother Turns Loss Broken Mom Daughter Bones Settling Single Mom Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Arthritis Mother Daughter Relationship Mother And Daughter Relationship

Author:Kristin Hannah

“God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.”

Faces Blue Bones

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents”

Young Girl Nice Picks Devil Cat Bones Scare Weekend Retreat Grandparent Granddaughter

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”

Source: Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1

“Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.”

Names Greater Return Shots Ugly Bones Mates Traits Popularity Publicity Rice Chatting

Book:At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel

“i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new.”

Love Feels Doe Body Bigs Eye Kissing Bones Flesh Your Body Firm Muscles Nerves Electric Again And Again Smooth Thrill Shocking Parting Spine Fur Trembling Crumbs

Author:e. e. cummings

“A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me.”

Moments Home Body Light Love You Hair Return Shapes Blue Fruit Bones Your Body Opening Heat Muscles Hug Fountain Ache Bruises Inverted Torso

Author:Li-Young Lee

“It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.”

Break Healthy Bones Uncles

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“And yet when i finally drifted of in that barely conscious state where logic was absent and dreams encroached i could almost hear bone's voice. he was whispering that same promise he'd made to me months ago when our relationship started and i wondered if it was a sign - and if he'd really meant it. If you run from me i'll chase you. And i'll find you.”

Ifs Made States Dream Running Voice Months Promise Conscious Logic Bones Our Relationship Absent Whispering

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.”

Made Dream Wanted Bones Flesh Soulmate

Book:The Tea Rose

Source: The Tea Rose

“I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.”

“Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.”

Men Doe Said Book Lying Order Speak Tree Rocks Judging Fool Stones Bones Laughed Speculation Rags Chunks Reckoning Squatters

Book:Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“Bring me liquor, Bones, fast, to take my foot out of my mouth. Cat to Bones”

Feet Mouths Cat Bones Liquor

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor”

Care Strange My Favorite Don't Care Bones Tongue

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy." Cat”

Mountain Smart Cat Bones

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones”

Way Made Eye Wish Cat Bones Thrown Bowls Glances Candy Lustful Eye Candy

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Care to see your room?” -Bones Let me guess—it’s that smashed‐up car right over there." -Cat”

Care Rooms Car Cat Let Me Bones Your Room

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing May Made Eye Moving Law Dies Stars Justice Blood Mines Creatures Stones Wine Shining Bones Revenge Flesh Teeth Meat Torture Abstract Crush Sooner Or Later Limbs

Book:The Year Of The Flood

Source: The Year Of The Flood

“Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”

Heart Lying Gone Bones Shops Ladders Foul Rags

Author:William Butler Yeats

“aren't you, uh... reproducing? "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.”

Bones Favorites Things Reproducing

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction." I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply.”

Men Way Information Opposites Bones Showers Files Wrong Way

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.”

Looks Long Water Wind Long Time Lonely Down And Bones Sand Roof Murmuring Deep Water

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.”

Men Air Hair Red Gold Bones Flesh Rings Cake Ashes Filling Soap Lucifer Poke Red Hair Wedding Ring

Author:Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Made Eye Faces Names Sound Blood Arms Mouths Window Ears Bones Shoulders Buried Laughed Salt Her Eyes Jace Simplest Luke Ardor

Author:Cassandra Clare

“if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”

Ifs Want Trying Success Failing Failure Bones New Years Resolution

Author:Richard Yates

“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”

Fall Lost Wish Parent Dying Bones Invisible Prudence Mike

Author:Sharon Creech

“The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.”

Way Personality Insight Bones Flesh Statistics Worn Garments

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.”

Looks Eye Kids Faces Stuff Interesting Party Feet Shapes Skins Towns Sticks Bones Tricks Bunch Ruins Operations Hanging Out Your Face Plastic Very Interesting Grind Tipping Cheekbones Shay

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.”

Bones Loathe Corpus

Book:Catherine, Called Birdy

Source: Catherine, Called Birdy