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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

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance. — Sarah Vowell

As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction. — Michael Dirda

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn't make it right. — B.J. Novak

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal. — Tom Waits

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

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. — Roger Kahn

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

You are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality. — David Eagleman

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him. — Maile Meloy

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. — Thomas S. Monson

Jane Eyre may be an orphan, homely, battered, alone and abandoned, but she is not, never has been and never will be a big fat sausage. — Fanny Britt

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche. — Carl Jung

On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage. — Aberjhani

The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear. — Nita Lowey

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad. — Laura Schlessinger

I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital. — Tim Rice

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it. — Joe McNally

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

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then! — Allen Ginsberg

You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered. — Holly Hood

Everything had a battered, trampled-on look, as though the place had just been visited by some large violent animal. — George Orwell

To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life — Anodea Judith

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

There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day. — George Carlin

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

He was fortunate to fight me on a bad night because if he fights me when I'm firing on all cylinders, he's getting battered as well. — Carl Froch

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

Infinity making its way into our battered little sphere of finity. — Rebecca Lee

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

My battered friends and I had just had a brush with death, dancing with this evil. — Richelle Mead

Your experiences with a few battered babies and drug abusers does not justify your embrace of a monster. — Stephen King

A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience. — Jojo Moyes

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

And we are all just a little broken, and just a little battered and just a little confused, searching for reason and for purpose — Anya

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes ... eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel. — Terri Clark

You're a battered heart, bleeding life in the universe of wounds. — Tony Kushner

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

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became. — Azar Nafisi

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

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. — Rick Allen

You're bruised and battered from dealing with things you should not have had to face, but you are not less because of that. You're more. — Cora Carmack

To face the waves. They got battered while Officer So pull-started the motor. When the four of them were in and headed toward open water, — Adam Johnson

The power to homogenize is the heavy artillery that has battered down all Chinese walls. — Guy Debord

The truth remains quiet inside us,floundering like a battered bird,desperately wanting to spread its
wings and fly away.
-TARA — Amita Trasi