Knives Quotes - Page 27

Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!

Aya Nakahara

Twists, Yeah

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I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

Margaret Atwood

Skills, Teeth, Spoons

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Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)

Eduardo Galeano

Rights, Air, Cities

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No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

Libba Bray

Girl

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

Natsuki Takaya

Hurt, Heart, Names

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Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.

Gregory Maguire

Green, Said, Walks

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I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.

Anais Nin

Want, Worship, Moments

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I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Wind, Desire, Unseen

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What are all these?" Clary asked. "Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, "electrum wire - not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares - silver bullets, charms of protetion, crucifixes, stars of David-" "Jesus," said Clary "I doubt he'd fit." "Jace." Clary was appalled.

Cassandra Clare

Jesus, Stars, Blessed

Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'" "Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo. "The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..." "... is Locke ..." "... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..." "... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.

Scott Lynch

Brother, Cheer, Thinking

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Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,” he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work with me. Well, that’s fine. Because I don’t want to work with you either. And for what it’s worth, nobody would ever believe you were my mom because no mom would ever behave like you.” “Alex…,” Carver began. “Forget it! I’m going back to London. And if you’re Mr. Byrne asks why, you can tell him I didn’t like the jelly, so I went home to get some jam.

Anthony Horowitz

Mom, Believe, Home

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Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die ,die...

Laurie Faria Stolarz

Missing, Black, Cry

Laurie Faria Stolarz (2011). “White is for Magic”, p.83, North Star Editions, Inc.

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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal, Air, Hands

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When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

Robert M. Pirsig

Process, Analytics

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You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.

Lilith Saintcrow

Hurt, Thinking, Enough

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Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood.

Erma Bombeck

Doors, Body, Gestures

Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.20, Open Road Media

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.

Oscar Wilde

Kissing, Men, Hands

The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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If you come, you better come in force because I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake, my aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die." I jammed my knife into the table and walked out.

Ilona Andrews

Hands, Tables, Lasts

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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

Oysters, Black History, African American

World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.

Franz Wright

Sorry, Couple, Who I Am

Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.89, Knopf

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She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

Anne Stuart

Hate, Hands, Mouths

Anne Stuart (2012). “Ice Storm”, p.246, Harlequin

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There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

Cornelia Funke

Men, Faces, Written

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.399, Chicken House

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The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Terry Pratchett

Murder, Discworld, Figures

"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was so accustomed to his step, to his bulk, that it took a moment to notice his face; and when she did . . . It was, she thought, rather like the moment it took to realize one had cut one's finger as one stared dumbly at the first drop of blood on the knife-blade. You know it is going to hurt quite a lot in a minute.

Robin McKinley

Hurt, Cutting, Fire

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And now I was trying to brush my hair,you know,when I thought about it,and looking at myself in mirrors,wondering if I was pretty.Pretty! A year ago,when my haair got in my eyes I hacked it off with a knife.The only thing important about my clothes was whether they were to stiff to move fast in battle. And Fang had been my best friend and an excellent fighter.

James Patterson

Moving, Eye, Mirrors

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