Truman Capote Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.

  Truman Capote

  Beautiful, Love Is, Thinking

• No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Blood, Way

• Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

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  Wrinkles, Hair, White

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

• I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.

  Truman Capote

  Eye, Hands, Circles

  Truman Capote (2012). “A Christmas Memory”, p.25, Modern Library

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