“Come on, bro, taking pain is easy. You just have to imagine that every bruise is a hickey from the universe. And everyone wants to get with the universe.”— Cole Sanchez, Kent Osborne, Finn the Human, Jeremy Shada, imdb.com
“To be fully human fully kind and true is full of bruising. Because that is how things become soft.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“But sometimes, the curveballs end up smacking us in the chest and close to the heart, leaving bruises that never seem to heal.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“This Spanish wine has all the dryness of rattlesnake skin abandoned between the forked thoughts of an Arizona moon. Moon tinged with bruises on one side. If this wine truly is a snake then it has silk scales and the warmth of a deep kiss pressed by a complete stranger against the lips of last night'…”— Alan Britt, amazon.com