Bleeding Quotes - Page 8

• Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Tragedy, Stitches

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.

  Kathy Reichs

  Running, Stupid, Wine

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Virals: (Virals 1)”, p.76, Random House

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• It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.

  Markus Zusak

  Morning, Stars, Dark

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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• We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.

  Julie Otsuka

  Dream, Weight, Lost

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• his parabatai rune was bleeding

  Cassandra Clare

  Runes, Parabatai

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• It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

  Anne Rice

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1933, Ballantine Books

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• Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. "What's the point?" "You're the point, son." Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. "You're the point.

  Nora Roberts

  Dirty, Tired, Eye

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• It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Cutting, Ribs

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.315, Penguin

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• Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Farewell, Opposites

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• So John took out of his pocket A knife both long and sharp, And stuck it through his brother's heart, And the blood came pouring down. Says John to William, "Take off thy shirt, And tear it from gore to gore, And wrap it round your bleeding heart, And the blood will pour no more.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Heart, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Then he crouches down behind it, motions for Tess and me to sit down, and begins unbuttoning his vest. I blush scarlet and thank every god in the world for the darkness surrounding us. “I’m not cold and I’m not bleeding,” I say to him. “Keep your clothes on.” The boy looks at me. I would’ve expected his bright eyes to look dimmer in the night, but instead they seem to reflect the light coming from the windows above us. He’s amused. “Who said anything about you , sweetheart?

  Marie Lu

  Eye, Boys, Night

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• The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire

  Alyson Noel

  Winter, Fire, Light

  Alyson Noel (2013). “Mystic”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and blood’ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Real, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.47, Profile Books

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• I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

  Edvard Munch

  Pain, Heart, Hair

  Edvard Munch, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Antonia Hoerschelmann, Christoph Asendorf, Graphische Sammlung Albertina (2003). “Edvard Munch: theme and variation”

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• Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Running, Giving, Ulcers

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• ...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

  Stephen King

  Lying, Towns, Happened

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.112, Anchor

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• Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him. "Um. Define okay." (Ben) "Okay means you're not bleeding to death." "I'm okay.

  Rick Yancey

  Mean, Okay

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• Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Class, Care

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Heaven, Trials, Horror

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• A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Deceit, Naked

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.135

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• I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

  Stephanie Perkins

  Love, Years, Whole

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.215, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.

  Eric Fischl

  Character, Thinking, Opening Up

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• A crushing hurt comes to our heart and the sympathizing, scarred hand of Christ presses the wound; and just for a moment,the pain seems to intensify,...bu t finally the bleeding stops.

  Beth Moore

  Crush, Hurt, Pain

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• The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

  Tommy Douglas

  Heart, Politics, Trouble

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• Cutting is not stupid. Stupid is being bad to someone and get them to the point of bleeding

  Demi Lovato

  Stupid, Cutting, Being Bad

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