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“They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.”

Way Book Wanted Simple Blood Streets Building Broken Clothes Stones Filled Hungry Ministers Princess Terrified Refugee Peasants Wrists Barbarians Shackles

Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

“The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.”

World Way Broken Healed Wrong Way Wrists

Author:Frances Hardinge

“Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.”

Made Blood Broken Creatures Findings Down And Terror Useless Ran Shaking Wrists

Book:Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a butterfly caught in amber, a cat's eye shell, a bolt of lightning forged from the heart of a falling star, and the flower of the rue plant, herb of grace. The queen gave each of her six children one of the charms as their lucky talisman, but ever since the chain of charms was broken, the gypsies had been dogged with misfortune.”

Source: The Gypsy Crown: Chain of Charms 1