Best Poisoned Words
173 Poisoned quotes by 143 unique authors
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Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in…
— Maria V. Snyder
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That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your…
— Terry Pratchett
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You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
— Oscar Wilde
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Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
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The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going."…
— Michael Scott
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They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.
— Vivian Vande Velde
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I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned…
— Steve Martin
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I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.
— Maria V. Snyder
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Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have…
— Daniel Handler
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Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else…
— John Connolly
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...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children…
— Libba Bray
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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
— Fernando Pessoa
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The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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...If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him…
— Jennifer Crusie
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I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!"…
— Rumi
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When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen…
— Stephen King
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When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others.…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very…
— Michelle Tea
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What is this?” he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. “This… this… thing?” “A parsnip?”…
— Cassandra Clare
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People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years,…
— John Green
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