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My soul was a lot more battered than my body, but I couldn't see it in the mirror. Hopefully no one else could either.
— Patricia Briggs
Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.And alive, for the first time in his life. — V.S. Carnes
She was battered incessantly, regularly, all the time. I'm not saying 24 hours a day, but the incidents of battering were extraordinarily high.
— Susan Forward
A rush of love and agonized worry filled her at the sight of her brother. He was filthy, battered, and grinning unrepentantly.
— Lisa Kleypas
As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.
— Michael Dirda
Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.
— Gerry Spence
I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known
— Don George
I'm sorry, Eve. I love you. I'm not letting you do this."She screamed and battered harder. "You love me? You asshole! Let me go! — Rachel Caine
A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.
— John Grisham
Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals ...
— Sarah Gorham
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.
— Thomas S. Monson
There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.
— Laura Schlessinger
A man with battered hands is shown to be a craftsman only when he puts them to work.
— Miguel Syjuco
Josh Hutchins's battered old Pontiac gave a wheeze like an old man with phlegm in his lungs.
— Robert McCammon
She's beautiful - broken and battered, still the most beautiful woman in the world to me - the only woman in the world for me.
— Elizabeth Finn
There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing.
— Blaise Pascal
Everything had a battered, trampled-on look, as though the place had just been visited by some large violent animal.
— George Orwell
When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.
— Suze Orman
The wonder is not that so many people have sick or battered souls, but that they think they have souls at all.
— Nicholas Samstag
A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I mentally picked myself up off the floor, dusted the dirt from my poor, emotionally battered ego, and began talking myself to a better place.
— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.
— Michael Grant
I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals,And women, battered like overused proverbs. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
— Robert Gottlieb
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.
— John Mason Brown
It was a frightening thing, to see two mentally incompetent sidewalk buskers, with battered folk musicians, who might any moment burst into song.
— Bruce Sterling
Even when battered and broken, he was beautiful. Yes, a guy could be beautiful. Especially if that guy was Deandre.
— Aishabella Sheikh
She was the type who chased, who danced into your life like a spring storm, and left you battered and quaking in the wake.
— Katherine McIntyre
O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys.
— Comte De Lautreamont
This rain doesn't cleanse my skin, nor soothe my battered and broken body. It doesn't hide my tears.It burns. — Dylan J. Morgan
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
— Virginia Woolf
There was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose around her ankles.
— Jen Frederick
A river shaped her,smoothed her with sand and battered
her against the shore, and she
resisted, she is still here. — Margaret Atwood
That was the rock she was battered against.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Your experiences with a few battered babies and drug abusers does not justify your embrace of a monster.
— Stephen King
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.
— Donald E. Westlake
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
— Isobelle Carmody
I want your heart, Sin. (Callie)It's battered and useless, but what remains of it is all yours, milady. (Sin) — Kinley MacGregor
Time is now measured from the night when death stole from me, took my battered heart, and left me behind.
— Nicole Reed
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
— Neal Shusterman
If the guy across from me was a cherry-red Ferrari, then I was a rusted-out and battered John Deere tractor in comparison.
— Jay Crownover
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life
— Jack Kerouac
Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day. -Liberty
— Lisa Kleypas
