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Rust and Bone: Stories QUOTES

Rust and Bone: Stories QUOTES

1 " Twenty-seven bones make up the human hand. Lunate and capitate and navicular, scaphoid, and triquetrum, the tiny horn-shaped pisiforms of the outer wrist. Though different in shape and density each is smoothly aligned and flush-fitted, lashed by a meshwork of ligatures running under the skin. All vertebrates share a similar set of bones, and all bones grow out of the same tissue: a bird's wing, a whale's dorsal fine, a gecko's pad, your own hand. Bust an arm or leg and the knitting bone's sealed in a wrap of calcium so it's stronger than before. Bust a bone in your hand and it never heals right. "

― Craig Davidson , Rust and Bone: Stories

2 " This went on for five minutes. At no time did he disappear. “Can you still see me?” “Afraid so.” “Damn!” His eyes snapped open. “Nothing? Didn’t my skin turn opaque? "

― Craig Davidson , Rust and Bone: Stories

3 " The skin of Herbert’s chest and arms and head turned opaque as a nearly colorless essence, smoke or mist or fog, rose off his body. "

― Craig Davidson , Rust and Bone: Stories