#bone

At fourteen my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#love

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones. ↗

— Catharine Arnold

#shakespeare #skittles #skulls #death

I am in love with a pianist, without his piano what is he? ↗

— Jai Clare

#love

Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet? ↗

— Cassandra

#jace #love

The only bone in my body he ever loved was his. ↗

— Vicki Pettersson

#kat-craig #paul-riiggio #love

His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#daughter-of-smoke-and-bone #simile #simile

5. If You Love, Love Openly Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master. Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain. Several monks secretly fell in love with her. One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting. Eshun did not reply. The following day the master gave a lecture to the group, and when it was over, Eshun arose. Addressing the one who had written her, she said: "If you really love me so much, come and embrace me now. ↗

— Nyogen Senzaki

#zen #zen-flesh-zen-bones #love

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#body #bone #country #had #i

What is she to you anyway? Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-The threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch. -Mal ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#leigh-bardugo #love #shadow-and-bone #inspirational

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

— Jeaniene Frost

#cat #humor #humor