“I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.”

— Sylvia Plath , book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

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Sylvia Plath 342

American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

Frank Oski (1932–1996) American pediatrician

Nothing. Nothing that wouldn't have happened anyway.
Source: Don't Drink Your Milk! (1983), p. 50

“"But, doctor, what will happen to my teeth and bones if I stop drinking milk?" Nothing. Nothing that wouldn't have happened anyway.”

Frank Oski (1932–1996) American pediatrician

Source: Don't Drink Your Milk! (1983), p. 50

“I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape---the lonliness of it---the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it---the whole story dosen't show.”

Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) Realist painter

“I’m still spry, but I feel the teeth gnawing, and believe me, my friends, it was better to be young.”

Poul Anderson (1926–2001) American science fiction and fantasy writer

Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks (p. 314)
Time Patrol

“tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

“Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. - Jace Wayland.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace and Clary, pg. 244
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "I wish I could hate you. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I think I do hate you and then I see you and I-"
"And you what?"
"What do you think? Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything. It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop."