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“I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had…

— V.S. Naipaul

“Honestly, you make one tiny mistake and they hold it over you for the rest of your days!' 'You started World War I!' 'That…

— Ashlee Nicole Bye

“ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND. 1863-1914. LLIE LIGHTLY UPON HIM EARTH, THO' HE / LAID MANY A HEAVY BURDEN UPON THEE.”

— John Green

“I cannot bear to look at his hands, they are like wax. Under the nails is the dirt of the trenches, it shows through…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Scientifically speaking, the flesh was melted off the world. His body was macerated until only the nerve fibers were left. It was spread like…

— Virginia Woolf

“He is dirt under fingernails and the stick of sap on skin... I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, otherworld.”

— Sonya Hartnett

“When we were young his hands had been soft but now they were a man's hands, with rough palms and coarse fingertips, but they…

— Jessica Marie Gilliland

“But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst…

— Bram Stoker

“I could easily imagine him on a battlefield ripping his enemies in half with his bare hands. Throw a kilt and a broadsword across…

— Grace Goodwin

“amidst the horrors of war, it became apparent that there was no way he could possibly survive the carnage. And if by some stroke…

— Julia Quinn

“with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the…

— Gaston Leroux

“Flesh parted beneath his silvered blade, a butcher’s dirge of steel cleaving meat.”

— Roger Bellini