You couldn’t not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin.

Once in a while i am struckall over again… by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart.

Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we’re sick and tired of it now. It’s been going on for too long. Are...

The sun was up – stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus...

I bruise easily and sometimes I can’t stop bleeding.

…You won’t age? I promise you this – your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they’ll bleed…

If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would take it. Without hesitation I would take it all. Maybe that’s how you...

Don’t lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the...