Quote by Christina Daley

“Oh, his words! Sometimes they’re like tiny splinters, catching at the fabric of my focus.”

— Ayisha Malik

“He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a moment, I am sure of everything. For…

— Katie Crouch

“But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone—”

— Veronica Roth

“He did his thing, and I did mine. Mine involved standing there with a sword in a bin liner waiting for something to try…

— Alexis Hall

“I've never understood why he likes knives.”

— Nora Sakavic

“You’re far too pretty to be dressed like that.” His breath stirred my hair, “And you’re entirely too excited to be working with knives.”

— Jennifer Armentrout Half-Blood

“There’s something different about him, and I don’t have to think hard to see it. Something about the way he takes over a room,…

— K.A. Tucker

“You think the things you like are just ordinary things, just part of your personality—fencing,”

— Leslie Stella

“He watches you, Sinda. Like you're his best treasure, only he can't think of a way to slip you into is pocket. Hasn't he-of-the-throwing-daggers…

— Eilis O'Neal

“It's weird, how much he's noticed me. Like the attention he's paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to…

— Suzanne Collins

“You, that judge men by the handle and the sheath, how can I make you know a good blade?”

— Jedediah M. Grant

“The rest of it spilled out in an incoherent jumble, but he nodded every once in a while. I liked that about him. He…

— Lili St. Crow