“I lost a little weight over the weekend. I cut my fingernails.”

“I bite my fingernails till they look like disease, pull strips of my skin away. Get Daddy's razor out cabinet. Cut cut cut arm wrist, not trying to die, trying to plug myself back in. (111)”

“I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.”

“If Stalin or Hitler arrested me and tossed me into one of those camps, I would carve words with my fingernails. If they cut off my fingers, I would write with my teeth. If they pulled out my teeth, I would blink my words to any listening bird. If they cut off my eyelids, I would fart code into the troposphere. You'd have to kill me to stop me from writing. It's how I breathe.”

“in a slapfight with Jesusmy face bleedsbecause no one cut their fingernails back then”

“My fingernail itches. I need to scratch it with my skin.”