Blood Quote by Robin LaFevers

“There was always dirt under his fingernails when he rested his hands on the counter, and his hands were broad and calloused, like maybe…

— Sarah Bruni

“I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“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

“My fingernail itches. I need to scratch it with my skin.”

— Jarod Kintz

“...my mom always telling me that a man with clean nails hides his dirt on the inside.”

— Laura McHugh

“Your nails upon my back wrote a chronicle in blood.”

— Muhammad Ijaz Ul Haq

“fingernails were torn out with pliers.”

— Stephan Talty

“Her cut finger has begun to bleed slightly and she licks the blood away. Salt, metal, black earth. Blood has such a tenebrous taste.”

— Emma Richler

“I had to claw back into the world, dig in no matter if my nails cracked and bled, hold on with everything I had.”

— Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas

“Or did you have your fingernails honed on a whetsone, my darling?”

— Ray Bradbury

“Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague,” but we did our nails anyway.”

— Margaret Atwood

“I am the kid with the dirty red shoes. That’s not dirt, it’s blood.
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— Jarod Kintz