Blood Quotes - Page 12

• The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully.

  Julian Barnes

  Hurt, Next Day, Three

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• Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

  Linda Hogan

  Ocean, Dark, Winter

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• You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

  Margaret Weis

  Father, Dragons, Differences

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

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• In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

  Julia Child

  Fighting, Ideas, Law

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.184, Anchor

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• Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?

  Mark Levin

  Men, Leviathan, Flesh

  Mark R. Levin (2012). “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Sleep, Odds

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.161, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

  Lady Gaga

  Legacy, Bruises

  "Lady Gaga to Ashton Kutcher: Hollywood Tweets Its New Year's Resolutions" by Lauren Schutte, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 1, 2012.

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• Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Heaven, Lust

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• This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moving, Guitar, Hot

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• I can smell you, Ms. Lane," he said, even more softly. "The only blood on you is from your veins, not your womb." My head whipped to the left and I stared at him. Ok, that was one of the more disturbing things he'd ever said to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Smell, Veins, Lanes

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.599, Dell

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• In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Heart, Rainbow, My Heart

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.69, Hamilton Books

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• If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, People, Might

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.481, Simon and Schuster

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• Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own.

  Andrew Peterson

  Mean, Men, Air

  Andrew Peterson (2008). “On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: Adventure. Peril. Lost Jewels. And the Fearsome Toothy Cows of Skree.”, p.23, WaterBrook

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• What have you done to my cat?" Magnus demanded... "You drank his blood, didn't you? You said you weren't hungry!" Simon was indignant. "I did not drink his blood. He's fine!" He poked the Chairman in the stomach. The cat yawned. "Second, you asked me if I was hungry when you were ordering pizza, so I said no, because I can't eat pizza. I was being polite." "That doesn't get you the right to eat my cat." "Your cat is fine!" Simon reached to pick up the tabby, who jumped indignantly to his feet and stalked off the table. "See?" "Whatever.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cat, Feet, Done

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• But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.

  Gena Showalter

  Party, Done, Slumber

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.55, HQN Books

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• It doesn't matter. Take Eddie's blood. Take Belikov's blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn't want to give hers, then that's all there is to it. She said no. This conversation is done.

  Richelle Mead

  Giving, Done, Care

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.88, Penguin

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• Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.

  Ted Dekker

  Heart, Sacrifice, Light

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• Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren’t worth a goddamned thing.

  Patrick deWitt

  Memories, Heart, Eye

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• You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Tears, Bones

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• What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

  Pablo Neruda

  Touched

  "The book of questions".

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• Jace reached up to unzip his jacket. Simon-I dont care how hungry I am, I am not going to drink your blood again. Jace-Like I would let you.

  Cassandra Clare

  I Dont Care, Drink, Hungry

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• The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!

  Harry Crews

  Jobs, Luxury, Clothes

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• I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

  Cassandra Clare

  War, Play, Paint

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2118, Simon and Schuster

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• Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

  Anne Michaels

  Heart, Thinking, Names

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.115, A&C Black

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• With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow.

  Paul Celan

  Eye, Keys, Wind

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