Bones Quotes - Page 21

• See?” I’d whispered to Bones, nudging him with a grin. “He never argues with her. Isn’t that sweet?” A snort preceded his response. “Keep dreaming, pet.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dream, Sweet, Pet

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• I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Qualms About, Speech, Beats

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• I love your hands,' he sighed. 'You think I look like an angel? Well, Kitten, your hands are my heaven and your eyes are my home.'" (Bones)

  Jeaniene Frost

  Home, Eye, Angel

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• Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed the ghoul by his other arm and began thumping him over the head with the loose limb. I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Ghouls, Qualms About, Body

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• I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,”Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate. “Oh, Kitten,” he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. “You didn’t really think we were done, did you?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Thinking, Done, Arms

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• It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Bullshit, May

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• Kitten, four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning because you're not there. -Bones from This Side of the Grave

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sleep, Eight, Four

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• ...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Promise, Would Be

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• You. Me. Exorcist. -Bones

  Jeaniene Frost

  Exorcist

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• They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

  Jack London

  Sparks, Bags, Half

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Strong, Heart, Necks

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.135, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.

  Douglas Adams

  Waiting, Tea, Jugs

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

  Clive Barker

  Names, Water, Soul

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• Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

  N.D. Wilson

  Darkness, Caves, Dies

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.139, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn’t stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away. During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Drinking, Pride

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hate, Forever, Skins

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see.

  Ken Kesey

  Couple, Rip, Party

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SparkNotes Literature Guide)”, SparkNotes

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• I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

  Malorie Blackman

  Hurt, Powerful, Talking

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Crush, Cancer, Cutting

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Quakeland”, p.96, Manic D Press

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• You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pet, You Left Me, Magnus Bane

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1628, Simon and Schuster

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• He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Voice, Lost

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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• Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Boys, Space

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• Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

  Alice Hoffman

  Skins, Skin And Bones, Fit

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• I want a room decorated with bones!" Dan said. "Where'd they come from?" "Cemeteries," Amy said. "Back in the 1700s, the cemeteries were getting overcrowded, so they decided to dig up tons of old bodies–all their bones–and move them into the Catacombs. The thing is...look at the dates. See when they started moving bones into the Catacombs?" Dan squinted at the screen. He didn't see what she was talking about. "Is it my birthday?

  Rick Riordan

  Moving, Talking, My Birthday

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• Classic line from Bones (vampire) to human who thinks human kind is ready for the vamps and ghouls to come out of the closet "The day your kind stops killing each other over skin colour or which God someone prays to, I might believe that".

  Jeaniene Frost

  Believe, Thinking, Ghouls

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