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“Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.”

Whole Body Left Essentials Skins Bones Emptiness Hollow Detachment Numbness Skin And Bones

Author:Tracy Chapman

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?”

Men Left Bones Flesh Squares Inches Quench Folding

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be carried out and done by people with ideas, people with concepts, people who feel in their bones that they want to go ahead and develop this, that, or the other concept which occurs to them.”

People Want Feels Believe Ideas Done Left I Believe Directors Concepts Scientist Bones Managers

Author:Mark Oliphant

“Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.”

Years Feelings Past Left White Bones Significance Bleach

Book:The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

Source: The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

“Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.”

Source: Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

“I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds”

Use Fighting Winning Left Wonder Broken Arms Thirds Strategy Rounds Bones Quitting Broken Bone

Author:Rich Franklin

“The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.”

Writing Reality Left Language Grows Impossible Bones Sentences Mistrust Skeletons Hardness One Sentence

Book:No time like the present

Source: No time like the present

“If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.”

Ifs Has Beens Ends Left Careers Cases Worst Higher Bones Muscles Throat Lungs Scenarios Worst Case Scenario Javelin

Author:Roman Sebrle

“With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.”

Stories Left Honest Female Bravery Complexes Insight Bones Prose Territory Filters Breathless Madeline

Author:Alissa Nutting

“They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.”

Looks Eye Song Next Left Hell Dancing Silent Saint Stranger Bones Ecstasy Shade Receiving Bent Handsome Elevators Jelly Dance Floor

Book:The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel

Source: The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel