“Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. ”
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life”
“What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.--Irish Proverb”
“I will devour you. I will lick your bones clean and crush them between my teeth. I will suck the marrow…”“That’s nice,” Kate said. “The shield.”
“It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.”
“The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.”