“The future was chaos, war and blood and thirst, ending with everyone's bones bleached white in the desert. The sand would bury their buildings and bodies, and eventually it would be impossible to tell that anyone had lived in the desert at all.”
Source: Bound by Blood and Sand
“Still, for what Androma did to him, he should hate her, should want her dead.
But seeing her before him, melting into rage and riot, her glowing grey eyes reflecting the electricity that swam around her swords...
Godstars, she was magnificent, a creature that deserved to release her wrath on the world. It would be worth every drop of blood about to be shed to bring her to Cyprian's feet.”
“It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell; there is no disputing it.”
Source: Harriet Hubbard Ayer's book: A Complete and Authentic Treatise on the Laws of Health and Beauty
“Transparent tubes divided Phil’s blood into shades of red, fading to straw colored plasma. I watched his fluid swirl past his shoulders and disappear into machines. He offered himself to blood banks all over the city, his plasma rushed to hospitals where it would circulate through other people’s bodies. The map of my love’s tapped arteries would look like a bloodshot eye over the city of Albuquerque. His blood bought us dinner. I dreamed he was my mother, and I nursed his arm. I wrote a poem about it, how I suckled his arm dry like a sore teat.”
Source: Dreaming in Night Vision: A Story in Vignettes
“...people who don't live at least a little bit in fear, have nothing left to live for.”
Source: Return to the Madlands
“People will drive by their high school ten years down the road, just so they can pretend that thinking "not much has changed" is actually true. When really, everything has changed. The air smells the same, but the roads have cracked more. The roads have cracked so much they now look like the skin on a crocodile's back. And all the fields, green in the summers, golden in the autumns, have all been paved over with new reasons to never come back.”
Source: Paradise City
“As a chosen one, you ought to realize that not all mountains are meant for you to climb. Choose the ones that elevate you to greater heights.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue”
Source: COMPLETE OKINAWA KARATE : Chin-na & Shuai-Jiao
“It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.”
Source: The City of Mirrors