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1 " That's certainly a problem. But that's not what I was thinking of. It's just that you are so soft, so fragile. I have to mind my actions every moment that we're together so that I don't hurt you. I could kill you quite easily, Bella, simply by accident." His voice had become just a soft murmur. He moved his icy palm to rest it against my cheek. " If I was too hasty… if for one second I wasn't paying enough attention, I could reach out, meaning to touch your face, and crush your skull by mistake. You don't realize howincredibly breakable you are. I can never, never afford to lose any kind of control when I'm with you. "
2 " Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia. I understand there's lots of Eastern Grays around this area. What do you say? Are you in?'Bergman looked at him like he'd just made the worst financial investment of his life. 'Kangaroos are wild animals. I've heard they claw like girl fighters and kick like jackhammers. You're going to get your skull crushed.'Cole held up a finger. 'Or I'm going to pet a kangaroo. How cool would that be? "
― Jennifer Rardin , Bite Marks (Jaz Parks, #6)
3 " The x-ray of your skull shows a large, flobby mass floating inside. I have to consult my colleagues to be certain, but it looks like a long sausage snarled into a lump. "
― Jarod Kintz , A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..
4 " It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land
5 " The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues. "
― Abhijit Naskar , 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
6 " Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it. "
― David Foster Wallace , Infinite Jest
7 " Nothing is tough but your skull so think out of the skull box and let the thoughts fly. "
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma , You By You
8 " It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like " it's uh nillness." Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart. "
9 " The more ethical and honest your business is, the harder it is to make money. And you have to understand this going in: when you start a business, being good and moral and ethical and, you know, legal… means you will make less money than someone who simply does not give a fuck.If you’re wondering where all this is going, the point to all this is to hammer into your skull the blunt reality that you and your new business are indistinguishable from the worst examples of the industry, and nobody cares. "
10 " You have a visitor, my lord." I frowned, " What?" " That is why I came in here. You have a visitor waiting for you." I stood up, exasperated. " Why didn't you say so?" Lacuna looked confused. " I did. Just now. You were there." She frowned thoughtfully. " Perhaps you have brain damage." " It would not shock me in the least," I said." Would you like me to cut open your skull and check, my lord?" she asked. Someone that short should not be that disturbing. "
11 " As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare .. "
― Alexander Gordon Smith
12 " There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick. "
― Annie Dillard , Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
13 " The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The tank has a shape, more or less - has more or less defined edges, a bottom and sides. But what it mostly has is volume: a hungry space I've somehow got to fill. "
― Mike Carey , The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Ship That Sank Twice
14 " Headache!" Zeus bellowed. " Bad. bad headache!" As if to prove his point, the lord of the universe slammed his face into his pancakes, which demolished the pancakes and the plate and put a crack in the table, but did nothing for his headache." Aspirin?" Apollo suggested. (he was the god of healing)" Nice cup og tea?" Hestia suggested" I could split your skull open," offered Hephaestus, the blacksmith god" Hephaestus!" Hera cried. " Don't talk to your father that way!" " What?" Hephaestus demanded " Clearly he's got a problem in there. I could open up the hood and take a look. Might relieve the pressure. Besides, he's immortal. It won't kill him "
