Accidents Quote by Carly Simon

“In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's the exposure to oxygen that…

— Leila Sales

“Epidermis, epidermis! How could it mean so much, when underneath, all blood was red?”

— F. Sionil José

purple does something strange to me

— Charles Bukowski

the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I remember that day very clearly: I had received a phone call. A friend had been in an accident. Perhaps she would not live.…

— Maggie Nelson

It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on…

— Jack Gould

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

— Vittorio Alfieri

“...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his pains: at…

— Felix D'Herelle

In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient…

— Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

“Pyrenean hemorrhagic fever or PHF,” Riese told them, her voice registering fear. “Some are calling it the new Spanish flu, others the red death…

— James D. Prescott

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

— Tim O'Brien

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

— Sylvia Plath