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1 " Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. " My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend. "
2 " My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard. "
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , Before We Visit the Goddess
3 " Ninth Floorshe ran across the parquet slipped the flokati matcrashed the windownoshe stood at the window prism looked up at sky bruise nightspread hernoshe tilted dived swanning spinningtip-toed ink air broke fingers firstnoshe climbed the small gap the window gavehung her finger joints clotted the view with frightened breathfell ligament torn and sorrynoshe wandered to the glass hatch to watch tranquilised lights sputteringleaned too hard fell faster than a bottle of Jacknothis is how it was:drunk screaming she crashed the parquet with griefroared the ungiving window frames which gaveshe spangled spaghetti-like ribbon-voicedstreet lights crashed on herno.She did nothing. "
4 " Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy. "
5 " Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. "
