Quote by Scott Westerfeld

“Her immediate, instinctive response was to distract herself with physical pain. She wanted to go to the kitchen and get a knife and cut…

— Tami Hoag

“But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.”

— Ford Madox Ford

“The thought occurred to me that she could easily take her knife and slash it though my spine.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same…

— Virginia Woolf

“She felt as if she'd always been holding a part of herself back, saving it, and she had a terrible fear she would end…

— Penelope Williamson

“Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could…

— G.S. Jennsen

“Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect,…

— Sonya Hartnett

“He moved around the wide counter, silent as always. She was sitting on the floor, her arms wrapped around her knees, her fist in…

— Anne Stuart

“That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“She looked at the knife, her throat tight with emotion. No roses or rings with him, but a knife with feathers carved into the…

— Veronica Rossi

“Her life was broken like a mirror and the shards kept cutting her fingers.”

— Ilona Andrews

“But mostly she was tired of being cut off from the part of herself that existed in the ambient. She would never be whole,…

— J.D. Lakey