Broken Bones Quotes

“He might come in useful.'
'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

“If love breaks more than a heart, maybe it's a sign and time to step out.”
― Anthony Liccione

“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.”
― James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, 2 Vols

“I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.”
― Charles Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

“My daughter breaks both her wrists jumping off of a swing. Her friend, who is five, told her to jump off of it. I promise nothing will happen, she said. But why did she promise that? she wails later at the hospital.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“And you,' she hissed at me. 'You,' Her teeth gleamed- turning sharp. 'I'm going to kill you.'

Someone cried out, but I couldn't move, couldn't even try to get out of the way as something far more violent than lightning struck me, and I crashed to the floor.

'I'm going to make you pay for your insolence,' Amarantha snarled, and a scream ravaged my throat as pain like nothing I had know erupted through me.

My very bones were shattering as my body rose and then slammed onto the hard floor, and I was crushed beneath another wave of torturous agony.

'Admit you don't really love him, and I'll spare you,' Amarantha breathed, and through my fractured vision, I saw her prowl toward me. 'Admit what a cowardly, lying, inconstant bit of human garbage you are.'

I wouldn't- I wouldn't say that even if she splattered me across the ground.

But I was being ripped apart from the inside out, and I thrashed, unable to out-scream the pain.

'Feyre!' someone roared. No, not someone- Rhysand.

But Amarantha still neared. 'You think you're worthy of him? A High Lord? You think you deserve anything at all, human?' My back arched, and my ribs cracked, one by one.

Rhysand yelled my name again- yelled it as though he cared. I blacked out, but she brought me back, ensuring that I felt everything, ensuring that I screamed every time a bone broke.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.”
― James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary

“I had the time, to make it alright, all of a sudden. On the left pulse, a new watch watches our future and evolution, as always. In Crystal glass, the old idea of having a new message has translated a mission and vision. I would not be wise enough, when it All belonged a young forest, somewhere deep in Earth!”
― Petra Hermans

“Broken bones could heal, but a shattered ego could do little more than scatter, making room for resentment that would take over the soul.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, American Princess