The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. (“Into a new life”)

Brave the skeletons, darling.

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.

If she opened the closet with her skeletons, they might drag her in with them.

I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.

Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into the open plains of a new horizon. ("Going back to yesterday")

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.

It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones.

Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons.