Knives Quotes - Page 13

• The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Cutting, Hair, Next Day

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while investigating the symbol. I must have carried that knife through a hundred Downworld haunts, searching for someone who might recognize it. I offered a reward for information. Eventually the name of the Dark Sisters came to my ears.” “Downworld?” Tessa echoed, puzzled. “Is that a place in London?” “Never mind that,” said Will. “I’m boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. Where was I?

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Skills, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Giving, Give Me A Chance

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

  Henry Rollins

  Prayer, Want, Chance

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Eye Scream”, 2 13 61

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• It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Home, Cutting, Blood

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• If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Poison, Arson, Patterns

  Charles Baudelaire (1955). “Flowers of Evil: A Selection”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Vores's settings fit Torgove's voice like a knife's sheath; they are alert to the harmony of every poem and to every shift of tonality within.

  Richard Dyer

  Voice, Fit, Harmony

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• The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

  Edward Young

  Blood, Tears, Flesh

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.243

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• War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

  Lord Byron

  War, Cry, Stills

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War....he was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration of wounds after he had operated. ...He would hold the sutures in his teeth and sharpen his knife on the sole of his boot, after he had raised up his boot from the muddy ground. That was the accepted practice at the time.

  Paul Douglas

  War, Dark, Men

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• The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

  Sydney Smith

  Funny, Two, Use

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• My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Snakes, Numbers, Space

  "Sloane Crosley on rubber animals and seeing through celebrity crushes". Interview with Ryan Vlastelica, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2015.

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• Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Reading, Teaching

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• I saw something in the store the other day that I don't understand: that peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. Is there a point to that? I mean, I'm lazy-but I wanna meet the guy who needs that. Some guy going, "You know, I could go for a sandwich-but, uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. Cleaning, who knows how many knives!?"

  Brian Regan

  Funny, Mean, Two

  "Brian Regan Live". Audio CD, 1997.

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• When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Faces

  "This much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2008.

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• I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

  John Buchan

  Hate, Men, Games

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.19, e-artnow

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• In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually trying to stop it...No, I only meant to give him a shave...No, I didn't realize that slicing open someone's jugular was going to lead to death.

  J.R. Ward

  Giving, Trying, Acting

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.214, Penguin

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• And speaking of on board, she'd moved into John's room properly. In his closet, her leathers and her muscles shirts were hanging next to his, and their shitkickers were lined up together, and all her knives and her guns and her little toys were now locked up in his fire proof cabinet. Their ammo was even stacked together. How frickin' romantic.

  J.R. Ward

  Gun, Fire, Together

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.468, Penguin

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• I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why the girl has just been taken hostage, but everyone seems to be acting like having a TALKING SKELETON in the room is perfectly normal. And you, where are your eyes? How can you see? How come the only people with eyes in this room are me and her?

  Derek Landy

  Girl, Sorry, Taken

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• I’m no more used to being without a weapon than you are. (Cassandra) She’s right about that. Her teddy bear is a six-inch retractable knife with a snub-nosed .38 Special. (Katra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Special, Weapons, Bears

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• His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Expression, Retail

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.29, Penguin

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• Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

  Yann Martel

  Dark, Light, White

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.50, Knopf Canada

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• It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

  Meg Cabot

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Ransom My Heart”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're not scared of his threats? (Amanda) Chere, the day I fear something like him is the day I lie down at his feet and hand him the knife to cut my heart out. The only fear I have is getting you back to your sister and convincing High Queen Hard Head to leave off this matter until I can locate Desiderius and send his soul into oblivion where it belongs. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Queens, Lying

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• Where are you anyway? (Acheron) I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius) Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bird, House, Mohawks

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