Knives Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?

  Cassandra Clare

  Sarcasm, Bystanders, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

  Simone Elkeles

  Needs, Alex, Cases

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Will tossed his apple core into the air, at the same time drawing a knife from his belt and throwing it. The knife and the apple scaled across the room together, somehow managing to stick into the wall just beside Gabriel's head, the knife driven cleanly through the core and into the wood. "Say that again," said Will. "And i'll darken your daylights for you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Air, Drawing

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• Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Light, Hands

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.316, Macmillan

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• You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.

  Sojourner Truth

  Giving Up, Cutting, Thinking

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run, and as my lungs burn and my back rebels with that stabbing knife feeling and my legs muscles harden and the half inch of loose skin around my waist jiggles, I feel as though my penance for the day is being done and that maybe God will be pleased enough to lend me some help, which I think is why He has been showing me interesting clouds for the past week.

  Matthew Quick

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.

  Marie Lu

  Distance, Cases

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• Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live

  Gayle Forman

  Kissing, Long, Mouths

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.79, Penguin

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• Carter was so taken aback by her attack he dropped his knife. “You knocked him stupid,” he bellowed. “No,” Emily corrected in what she believed was a reasonable tone of voice. “He was already stupid. I knocked him out.

  Julie Garwood

  Stupid, Taken, Voice

  Julie Garwood (2010). “The Clayborne Brides: One Pink Rose, One White Rose, One Red Rose”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Hands, People, Missing

  "The Darkest Minds (A Darkest Minds Novel)". Book by Alexandra Bracken, 2012.

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• Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain.

  Devon Monk

  Pain, Gun, Made

  Devon Monk (2011). “Dead Iron: The Age of Steam”, p.65, Penguin

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• I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

  Mickey Gilley

  Drawers, Know How, Knows

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• Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives.

  Dan Wieden

  Agency, Giants, Should

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• Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

  Marina Abramovic

  Real, Blood, Opposites

  Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  House, Machines, Ugly

  "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" by Tom Dyckhoff, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 12, 2007.

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• The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

  Dan Barker

  Bible, Fear, Cutting

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

  John Owen

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• "Lay the knife at the tips of your fingers," Rob commanded. "So close youcan feel the blade against your skins. Then cut the shadow away." Jared had been silent in her head. Now Kami turned her mind to his and let his thoughts and feelings flow through her. Kami, please, please wait just another moment, Jared begged, I'll save you, and later I'll be better, I'll do anything you want, be anything you want me to be. Please don't do it.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Cutting, Waiting, Feelings

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• I have never been to a court s gracious as the one Neha keeps. Dmitri played a knife through his fingers, one of the three he'd brought back from Neha's territory. "She truly believes in giving honor to a visitor." He threw to knife at Jason. "He threw it back as Venom added, "Thought she might have that guest neatly executed as the court sleeps.

  Nalini Singh

  Believe, Sleep, Giving

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• Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Decision, Balance

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• The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government Debt, Office, Growth

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.212

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Coffee, Sea, Wings

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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