“The only bone in my body he ever loved was his.”

“Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.”

“I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.”

“All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.”

“In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions”

“The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin.”