She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.
Roman PayneTags: courting affection girl courtesy gentleman chivalry masculinity roman-payne bruise delicate feminity linden linden-tree
Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.
Paul MurrayThe handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.'
'Then you'll be able to distinguish me from Rose.'
The handkerchief paused. 'I could tell you apart from the beginning. You're quite different to each other, you know.'
Perhaps he could tell, in the obvious ways. The odd one was Rose; the other odd one was Briony.
Tags: odd bruise distinguishing-twins
The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.
Helen HodgmanTags: sun colors sky bruise apricot queues
...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...
John GeddesTags: age hands skin shiny bruise transparent
Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: wounds hurt grief injury heartache sting richelle bruise richelle-goodrich lick-your-wounds
Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it?
Athol FugardTags: life dance people life-lessons life-lesson bruise collision people-suck bruised master-harold master-harold-and-the-boys
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