Shape Of Bones The

"He'd been hurt in countless ways, all over his body. He had smashed face-first into trees, fallen off the swing and landed on his chin, taken horrific spills from bicycles, buried a fishing hook in his inner thigh, split fingernails in half, torn several soft parts of his flesh on rusty barbed wire, and broken a tooth on a bus turnstile. But he couldn't imagine what it felt like to be punched in the face. He made a fist and pressed it into his cheek, his mouth, the tip of his nose, first gently, then pressing the bones of his hand hard into his flesh, imagining the pain . . ."