Quotes About Bruising

#1. They can only touch the heart by bruising it.

Stendhal

#2. Don't worry about Sian," Louisa said, "things will get better."
"What, she'll stop hitting me?"
"No, but you'll stop bruising so easily.

Dylan Perry

#3. What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen.

Lauren Oliver

#4. Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.

Haven Kimmel

#5. They've given Harry the attributes of pistachio nuts and crack cocaine without the health risks (opening thousands of pistachio nuts can cause severe thumb-bruising, I can tell you from bitter experience of my life on the edge).

David Mitchell

#6. True compassion is about not bruising the other person's self-respect.

Naoki Higashida

#7. Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn't give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls
I'm talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs

George Watsky

#8. And for a moment there, despite the bruising, despite the snarled dirty hair, despite her sunburned skin and the suffering in her eyes that she refused to let defeat her, she was one of the prettiest things he'd ever seen.
~Dallas and Amy~

Cindy Gerard

#9. After about five minutes had passed, I went outside and they'd gone. When I checked my hand to see if my knuckles were swelling or any bruising was coming up I got a shock, there was false tan on my knuckles! I still chuckle about that to this day.

Stephen Richards

#10. He took from my body, my heart, my soul. In return he gave himself to me the only way he knew how: with bruising hands, passionate kisses, and hard thrusts.
His body was sin, his cock was sin, and I was a sinner.

K.I. Lynn

#11. I once heard her tell a friend that she was, in fact, a 120-pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat in order to prevent bruising.

Haven Kimmel

#12. Don't you ever pull that shit again," he said between bruising kisses. He pressed her up against the wall and trapped her with his body.
"Take your own advice," she shot back and wrapped her legs around his waist.

Mila Rossi

#13. Next time she flew off a cliff, she would try to remember to wear her worsted skirts. Perhaps then, ouch, she would not have to suffer additional bruising.

Cindy Anstey

#14. Never, he snarled and then his mouth found hers in a bruising kiss that left no room for thought, only pleasure. And oh, by the stars and moons, and the whole galaxy, did he know how to give her pleasure.

Eve Langlais

#15. That slow burn wait while it gets dark, bruising the sun.
I feel grown up with you in your car, I know it's dumb.

Lorde

#16. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

Cathy Rigby

#17. The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

Charles Spurgeon

#18. Stenchgator, the Great Unwiped Bum... was listed in the Bumper Book of Bums as the stinkiest bum in the world. Most bums only registered one or two points on the Rectum scale, but Stenchgator came in at a nose-bruising 9.8 points.

Griffiths, Andy

#19. Sethian grabbed my trembling hips in a bruising hold and began to thrust up into me almost violently, capturing my lips again in an equally bruising kiss.

Cristina Rayne

#20. Yeah, you were doing a real bang-up job of it. I particularly liked the way you were bruising his fists with your face. A few minutes more and I'm sure your heart would have been on the attack ... after it was ripped from your chest. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?"
"Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.

Elizabeth Chandler

#22. I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

#23. He apologized. For what he did with Lia." "You can apologize for punching someone, but it doesn't stop the bruising.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#24. The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.

Meghan Daum

#25. The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange.

Harlan Coben

#26. It's okay not to be okay ... Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart but tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, there's nothing wrong with who you are.

Jessie J.

#27. I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.

Deborah Moggach

#28. The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

#29. The bracelet and the first charm appeared the day I punched Austin Jackson in the nose. I didn't mean to slug him. His face just got in my way. It was a bruising end to a disastrous first month in middle school.

Jenny Lundquist

#30. Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.

Tayari Jones

#31. I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones.

Dana Gould

#32. I now know how to walk around properly in my undies. People would keep telling me to push my tits out! I also now know how to use a whip on people without causing bruising.

Billie Piper

#33. No, sweetheart. I expect you to submit. They're only padded because I can't bear the thought of so much as bruising you. I take the gift of your trust very seriously.

R.K. Lilley

#34. Affliction is a bruising of a blessing; but it is a blessing from the hand of God.

Kara Tippetts

#35. Tip: To avoid bruising the basil, Mama tore the leaves into pieces with her fingers. Chopping is fine, but you won't have basil-scented fingers.

Johnny Carrabba

#36. A bruising love where every pat was just this side of a slap. The love one has for something always beneath you.

Joe Abercrombie