| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b5e0f36 | You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. | fingernails manicure nails despair | Ian McEwan | |
| 08c3933 | Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. | well-worn-phrases similes nails | Charles Dickens | |
| e0386c3 | Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress. | danielewski distress the-familiar xanther nails bite | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 3a4822a | In the midst of a full-blown disaster - with the house apparently self-destructing around them - Lila was calmly filing her nails. | filing nails sweet-valley | Francine Pascal |