“This is something they carry with them forever, like a bullet in the spine.”— Susannah Grant, Karen Duvall, Merritt Wever, imdb.com
“When the doctor suggested surgery and a brace for all my youngest years, my parents scrambled to take me to massage therapy, deep tissue work, osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine unspooled a bit, I could breathe again, and move more in a body unclouded by pain. My mom would tell me to sing songs t…”— Ada Limon, apmpodcasts.org
“I think you've still got lightning in you.”— Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Suzy Bishop, Kara Hayward, imdb.com
“Do you not know how to kill a snake? You swing it around, you crack it like a whip, and then it breaks its spine and all the guts and everything else comes shooting out the mouth.”— Trent O'Donnell, Detective Hendy, Patrick Brammall, imdb.com
“Your spine is stronger than granite. You have no reason to act like it doesn't exist.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“An essential part of actualization is recognizing your spine, its exact longitudes and latitudes, its corresponding weaknesses where the algae grows.”— Claire Bowman, narrativemagazine.com