Best Rib Cage Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The soft, lovely home she’d been building for her heart was brutally ripped away, leaving only a cage of cold bone to protect her from further attacks. Her defensive modification fended off the devastation of her revelation. It was not compartmentalization—it was survival.”

Pain Loss Grief Heartbreak Trauma Grief And Loss Lost Everything Emotional Turmoil Rib Cage Compartmentalization

Book:The Paragon

Source: The Paragon

“Your spirit has wound itself into my bones, My rib cage is the anchor for its home.”

Love Home Spirit Poetry Soulmates Anchor Rib Cage

Book:Strings of Fate

Source: Strings of Fate

“Ashes have no fear to burn in hell In your heart's paradise angels dwell Rib cage fastens all sins of the wrong Your bones will sing you mortality’s song”

Heart Song Fear Dark Sin Darkness Hell Paradise Sinner Mortality Wrong Ashes Angels Sing Ribs Sins Wrongdoing Burn Sinners Ash Mortal Rib Cage Dwell

Author:Munia Khan

“Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?”

Mind Persons Talking Clothes Skins Opening Cages Therapists Ribs Opening Up Mind Opening Rib Cage

Book:Black Box

Source: Black Box

“The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.”

Eye Sound Mouths Hot Ancient Dry Stomach Engines Cages Palms Jet Ribs Pavement Vacant Travels With Charley Warming Up Rib Cage

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.”

Inspirational Heart Two Might Poetry Break My Heart Pages Someday Cages Love Poems Save Me Ribs Rib Cage

Author:Andrea Gibson

“The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.”

Men Way Heart Stomach Cages Ribs Rib Cage

Author:Jeph Jacques

“The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.”

“I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.”

I Can Bigs Faces Huge Capacity Blue Notes Cages Lungs Ribs Rib Cage

Author:Jessica Simpson

“I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.”

Looks Children Stills Body Hands Light Eye Faces Moving Animal Hair Pure Empty Mirrors Glasses Bones Shoulders Cups Hips Pale Cages Skulls Thighs Seventeen Ribs Bruised Rib Cage

Book:The Hanged Man

Source: The Hanged Man

“I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.”

Years Heart Made Moments Body Might Night Language Strong Prayer Sleep Behinds Known Morning Taught My Heart Sight Dawn Waking Glances Cages Accompany Ribs Eyelids Because Of You Rib Cage

Author:William Goldman

“I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.”

Want Heart Together Cells Crush Cracks Inspirational Love Thread Cages Ribs Migrate Braids Rib Cage

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

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

“I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.”

Littles Enough Kids Lasts Shoulders Loud Last Time Cages Little Kid Skeletons Ribs Gus Rib Cage

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.”

Thinking Feelings Felt Forever Cry Tears Opposites Add Horrible Burning Plus Cages Ache One Word Ribs Minus Rib Cage

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy.”

Way Wells Heart Flower Cages Messy Ribs Rib Cage

Author:Eddie Murphy

“I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages.”

Littles Has Beens Week Missing Baby Ten Legs Cages Pro Life Ribs Rib Cage

Author:Deborah Priya Henry

“I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.”

Thinking Love Said Age Fall Voice Sleep Love You Rising Cages Ribs Quietness Steadiness Rib Cage

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

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