Home / Topics / Bones Quotes

Bones Quotes

Browse 1871 quotes about Bones.

Bones Quotes

“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.”

Ifs Should Firsts Littles Long War Age Lasts Planets Bones Aggressive Nuclear Weapons Buttons Conquest Suicidal New Age Madmen Conqueror Nuclear War Gadgets

Book:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

“I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire again.”

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.”

Knows Mind Wells May Sleep Wake Up Fingers Bones Tiny Beast Fishing Helpless Wire Going To Sleep Crossings Nameless

Author:Isaac Marion

“Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.”

Earth Waiting Watches Generations Feet Breaths Bones

Book:Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition

Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition

“Maybe some hidden, fragmented part of me had feared that if I admitted to Bones how much he truly meant to me, then I'd be acknowledging to myself that he had the power to destroy me more thoroughly than anyone, even Apollyon or the vampire council, could. All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.”

Ifs World Mind Soul Body Bones My Soul Vampire Council Mind And Body Fragmented Demolish

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.”

Knows Said Girl Hurt Like You Broken Lifetime Bones Weather Ache Julia Broken Bone

Book:Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour

Source: Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour

“In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.”

World Long Stills Body Fall Black Water Dark Journey Bottom Bones Crush Sand Covered Collapse Decay Norm Vessel Long Journey Dark Days Algae

Author:China Mieville

“Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.”

Soul Pieces Fashion Soldier Bones Flesh Armour

Author:Steven Erikson

“A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.”

Ifs Knows Eating Concern Drinking Bones Chemicals Marrow Pesticides Silent Spring Eating And Drinking

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.”

Heart Said Blood Tears My Heart Bones Letting You Go

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.”

Knows Asks Pieces Cold Dignity Lays Spread Bones Gates Flaws Ritual Closets Bathroom Sculpture Bedtime Hoarding Splinters Tiles

Author:Anne Sexton

“I'm a gunfighter, Jim, not a demonologist." Sin moved past him so that he could burn the body o n the ground. "Nice Bones impression. Roddenberry would be proud.”

Body Would Be Past Sin Nice Proud Moved Bones Impression Be Proud

Book:Retribution

Source: Retribution

“....called to give you the good news. I asked our daughter to marry me and she accepted. Congratulations, I will officially your son-in-law. Now, do you want me to call you zmum straightaway, or wait until after the wedding?" I lew through the ir in a dive tht finally tackled him, wrenching the phone away. Bones was laughing so hard he had to breathe to get it all out. "Mom? Are you there? Mom.....?" "You might want to give her a moment, Kitten. I believe she fainted.”

“No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didn’t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead.”

Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series

“Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.”

Dream Bones Backgrounds Odd Your Dreams Background Music

Book:Destined For an Early Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: Destined For an Early Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

“Trying to wake you,” Bones answered crisply. “I cut you, threw water on you, slapped you, and set a lighter to your legs. For future reference, which one of those do you think worked?” “Good God,” I hissed. “No wonder I thought you were Death incarnate in my dream, and that made me run toward Gregor at first!”

Thinking Trying Firsts Made Dream Running Water Wonder Cutting Legs Bones Lighters Good God Wakes You

Book:Destined For an Early Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: Destined For an Early Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

“If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.”

Ifs Needs Heart Would Be Prayer Doubt Bones

Author:Mother Teresa

“I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.”

Ifs Heart Said Behinds Break Bones Frodo

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.”

Lost Red Blue Bones Jewels Pits Whiteness Clinic

Book:Birthday letters

Source: Birthday letters

“I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.”

Doe Stories Use Feelings Eye Differences Hurt Cry Skins Stronger Moved Brave Bones Coward Have Courage Homesickness Bandages Skin And Bones

Author:Herta Muller

“An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.”

Feels Mind Ideas Body Desire Hate Emotion Bones Your Body Muscles Sensations Ache Love Hate Repulsion Desire Love

Book:Defending Jacob: A Novel

Source: Defending Jacob: A Novel

“This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.”

Easy Bones Worthwhile Exit

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry lectures regarding soil composition? Do your members find themselves whipped into some sort of dusty frenzy, from which no delicate lass would be safe?" Mr. Barrington tugged on his coat. "Sometimes the debate does get heated." Colin turned to her. "Min, Can I just hit him?" "I think that's a bad idea." "run him through with something sharp?”

Thinking Men Needs Doe Ideas Sometimes Would Be Running Earth Stupid Protect Safe Members Bones Debate Dry Soil Delicate Composition Coats Lectures Bad Ideas Frenzy Unmarried

Author:Tessa Dare

“"No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by seeing who can break more of your bones." Tod glanced at him, brows raised. "You want to settle our differences?" Nash frowned. "No, I want to break every bone in his body, and I didn't think you'd let me do it alone." Tod nodded. "Good call."”

Thinking Want Should Body Differences Break Seeing Brother Let Me Raised Bones Settling Where You Are Brows

Author:Rachel Vincent

“He was also handsome in a too-pretty way that made me think with less muscles, a wig, and some makeup, he'd look great in a dress. Vlad's scowl vanished into a smile as the brunet's gaze swung in my direction as though he'd somehow heard that. "Looks as though she's put you in your place as well, Bones," Vlad drawled.”

Thinking Way Wells Looks Made Heard Dresses Bones Muscles Makeup Handsome Wigs

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.”

People Easy Forget Blood Bones Indestructible

Author:Alexandra Adornetto

“Bones leaned back, studying me. I felt so self-conscious. If only I had a shield of makeup, some perfectly arranged hair... and oh yeah. Some panties.”

Ifs Self Felt Study Hair Conscious Yeah Bones Makeup Shields Self Conscious Panties

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.”

Way Want Littles Doe Ends Character Helping Body Life Is Choices Fall Loses Destiny Broken Dignity Edges Painful Bones Odds Cliffs Landing Complete Freedom

Author:Etgar Keret

“I will devour you. I will lick your bones clean and crush them between my teeth. I will suck the marrow…” “That’s nice,” Kate said. “The shield.”

Said Nice Clean Bones Teeth Crush Shields Kate Marrow

Book:Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels

Source: Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels

“Let me introduce my friend, Cat.’ The redhead, and for some reason, she looked familiar. ‘Her husband Bones’ – here Vlad smiled coolly at the short-haired brunet – ‘is not my friend.”

Reason Husband My Friends Cat Let Me Bones Familiar Introducing

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like bones. He walked through wind and weather, and beneath sun-bleached skies. It seemed to Harold that he had been waiting all his life to walk. He no longer knew how far he had come, but only that he was going forward. The pale Cotswold stone became the red brick of Warwickshire, and the land flattened into middle England. Harold reached his hand to his mouth to brush away a fly, and felt a beard growing in thick tufts. Queenie would live. He knew it.”

Hands Light Stars Felt Waiting Walks Sun Growing Tree Sky Land Middle Wind Moon Mouths Red Stones England Bones Weather Thick Pale Hung Brushes Bricks Beard Trunks Eyelashes Tree Trunks

Author:Rachel Joyce

“Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?”

Home Suffering Sun Wings Dare Bones Toes Frozen Feathers Deities Cliffs Precipice Wings To Fly

Book:Burned

Source: Burned

“It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow unique and precious to the universe, in some obscure corner of my mind I wanted the others to love me and make exceptions for me simply because I felt heat and cold, pain and loneliness as they did. Now this was gone once and for all, and I understood there were no exceptions and on one was invulnerable, we all had to share the same conditions and in the end this was simply mortality, the mortality of things as well as ourselves. After that I didn't expect anybody to love me.”

“Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.”

Names Break Stones Sticks Bones Quarrels Sticks And Stones

Book:Northern lights

Source: Northern lights

“And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.”

Needs Together Father Kissing Skins Bones Desperate Tonight Delicate Killers Locks Survived Our Father Intricate

Book:Love Poems

Source: Love Poems

“Sweet bleedin’ Christ,” Bones interrupted. “Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we’re already turning away spooks by the dozen. If you want another pet, we’ll get you more cats.”

Ifs Want Trying Turns Christ One Thing Sweet Cat Bones Ghost Pet Dozen Interrupted Adopting Hmm Ghost Whisperer

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.”

Heart Bones Ice Ruthlessness

Book:City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.”

Source: Every Day

“You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.”

Knows Men I Can Wanted Deals Saws Kings Higher Creatures Horse Bones Folly Thrones Living Creatures Blizzard Sandstorms

Book:Lioness Rampant

Source: Lioness Rampant

“Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.”

Writing Littles Ideas Christian Universe Belief My Own Messages Let Me Bones Setting Settings Dogma Orthodoxy Standpoint

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now.”

“...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.”

People Heart Certain House Gone Blood Civilization Bones Muscles Oblivion

Author:Richard Brautigan

“I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.”

Firsts Hard Might Born First Time Bones Screws Loving You Cracked Screw Ups Stop Loving You

Book:Home Front: A Novel

Source: Home Front: A Novel

“The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.”

Writing Heart Body Pain Wish My Heart Rain Harder Bones Flesh Pounds Roof Sheets

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in one place, and so unceasingly. The damp had seemed to come up from the floors and into his bones, so that he'd thought he would eventually sprout mold, in the manner of a tree. "You do get used to it," he said "Even if sometimes you feel as if you out to be able to be wrung out like a washrag." p 311”

People Ifs Feels Believe Said Sometimes Able Used Tree Rain Come Up Bones Gray Shade Uniforms Mold Damp Sprouts

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore With one great rip they formed the shore Where heavy boots left prints so deep Blue lakes remain 'tween summits steep The giants fought beneath our skies And from their bones our mountains rise”

Left Sky Land Mountain Blue Green Heavy Bones Hills Giants Lakes Massive Rough Print Shore Farms Boots Summit Rip Steep Paws Tweens Green Hills Heavy Boots

Author:Shannon Hale

“The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.”

Humans May Soul Dies Memories Race Wind Deeper Bones Ache Chords Human Soul Migrate

Book:'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

“I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.”

People Knows Want Needs Writing Wells Heart Dream Bigs Desire Fighting Plans Heard Journey Moon Folks Bones Monsters Idiot These Days Load Kneeling Daft

Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.”

Doe Cutting Stones Sells Bones Ems Throat Naughty Aprons

Author:Libba Bray

“I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response. "Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance.”

Way Seems Faces Names Left Speak Ignorance Pure Stones Response Bones Call Me Warning Whips Snaps Slander Indignant

Author:Jeaniene Frost