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1 " My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. "
― Jodi Picoult
2 " She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise. "
― Nicole Lyons
3 " Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars. "
― Robert Anton Wilson
4 " England is always remaking herself, her cliffs eroding, her sandbanks drifting, springs bubbling up in dead ground. They regroup themselves while we sleep, the landscapes through which we move, and even the histories that trail us; the faces of the dead fade into other faces, as a spine of hills into the mist. "
― Hilary Mantel , Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
5 " The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.It was something. Don't say it wasn't. "
― Megan Abbott , Dare Me
6 " It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie had once been a giant, who grew so huge and so heavy that, one day, worn out from the sheer effort of moving and living, he had stretched out on the plain and fallen into a sleep so profound that centuries passed between heartbeats. "
― Neil Gaiman , Stardust
7 " You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation of one’s soul and put back together. I want to know how you emerged from hell made of steel and fire. "
