Knives Quotes

661 Knives quotes by 478 unique authors

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with. — Dorothy Dunnett
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly! — Kiersten White
Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep… — Helene Hanff
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… — Virginia Woolf
My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue! — Tamora Pierce
Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair… — Robert Bloch
I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the… — Tamora Pierce
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and… — Sylvia Plath
Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me. — Maria V. Snyder
So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting… — Patrick Rothfuss
What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans… — Kiersten White
If you want to know the Correct term for me, I'm a Dark-Hunter." Nick digested that word slowly. "Which means what? You hunt darkness?" "Yes,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a… — Bruno Schulz
God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped. "God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be… — Judith McNaught
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in… — Brandon Sanderson
I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd… — P.G. Wodehouse
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth.… — Hunter S. Thompson
He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I… — Veronica Roth
...I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention… — David Eddings
There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came… — Ann Aguirre
I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. “Cody, will… — Gena Showalter
Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know… — Jodi Picoult
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you… — Jason Mraz

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