The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the…

“He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I saw him trying to struggle and call out. But because of the robe, he could not move and his voice could not be…

— Colm Tóibín

“Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility…

— Ted Dekker

I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

“Every muscle in his body tensed for action, adrenalin pounding through his tiny veins, he crept down the stairs, keeping to the corners (where…

— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

“It was you," I say softly. "It's always you I think about." The intensity in his gaze took my breath away. I could feel…

— Kristen Simmons

“More helicopters hovered to the south, and a large troop carrier lifted off the ground a mile ahead. These weren’t the same helicopters Rick…

— Rich Hoffman

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the…

— Red Haircrow

Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood,…

— Guy de Maupassant

“The gypsies were a special breed. It wasn't blood that flowed through their veins but rhythm.”

— Laekan Zea Kemp

“This is how things come to pass in the world,' one of the princes is supposed to have said. 'Blood flows one way in…

— Ismail Kadare

So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the…

— Robert Lanza

Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you…

— Jodi Picoult

“who wants to make it grand or fortify it for the coitus, must rub it before copulation with tepid water, until it gets red…

— Nigel Cliff

“The hunger for power has made them cruel They shed humanity and shed every rule They bow to the devil, deny what is just…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari