Knives Quotes

661 Knives quotes by 478 unique authors

When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and… — John Steinbeck
I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice… — Andrea Dworkin
I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He… — Veronica Roth
I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries… — Laurie Halse Anderson
You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife? — Richelle Mead
Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs. — Catherynne M. Valente
Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars. Value: priceless. — Tina St. John
Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly… — Kiersten White
He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue,… — Rick Riordan
Crazy gets all the knives. — Mira Grant
When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice. — R.L. LaFevers
. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound… — Hermann Hesse
It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife. — Charles Bukowski
And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives. — Jeanette Winterson
Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They… — Holly Black
Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he… — Veronica Roth
At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like… — Suzanne Collins
I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?" - Vaughn to Faith — Nalini Singh
...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his… — Barry Lyga
Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the… — Laurell K. Hamilton
It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of.… — Anne Tyler
When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you. — George R. R. Martin

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