Written in Bone Quotes

“Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut”
― Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

“In death, everyone is equal.”
― Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

“The dead have a way of haunting the living, their stories demanding to be told.”
― Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

“Skeletons do not discriminate; they reveal the truth about a person, regardless of their wealth or status.”
― Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

“Time does not erase all evidence; it only buries it deeper.”
― Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

“Bones have their own language.”
― Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

“Once our long bones have finished growing (usually by around the age of fifteen or sixteen in girls and eighteen or nineteen in boys), we will have reached the maximum height we are ever going to be.”
― Sue Black, Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind

“The classification of super-recognizers emerged from an entirely different field of research: a clinical psychology experiment which was studying the opposite end of the spectrum: prosopagnosia. This is a clinical condition, sometimes described as face blindness, where people have extreme difficulty identifying faces. It can be enormously debilitating. A parent may not be able to pick their child up from school because they cannot recognize their offspring. Some sufferers cannot even recognize their own face on being shown a photograph of themselves. Prosopagnosia is an inherited condition; it can also be acquired through stroke or traumatic brain injury. You can take a quiz online to see where you lie on the prosopagnosia–super-recognizer spectrum. Most of us will be somewhere in the middle, with the vast majority proving better at recognizing their husband than I am.”
― Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind