Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow. - Helen Oyeyemi
...hell was a great fiery-hot music hall, he thought, where untuned instruments scraped and shrieked in diabolical cacophany... - Annie Proulx
I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board. - Emma Cline
The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile. - Santosh Kalwar
You mean less to me than the dog s__t I scraped off the bottom of my shoe! - Emma Paul