“Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.” SoulMomentsSpiritFeltSunPathBloodFeetColourRegionsTriumphantAchilles Author:David Malouf
“Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?” UseBlackBloodPoetRedLustColourWheelbarrows Book:Thirteen Reasons Why Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake” BlackBloodLandGrewRainGood ThingsColourWickedCakeHarvestIcing Author:Andy Partridge
“Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress not the colour of blood. Maoists must not have the gun in their hands, instead they must have agriculture tools and pens so that they can serve others. Raasta kalam, hal aur pasine ka hai, khoon ka nahi.” NeedsHandsMotivationTakenProgressBloodStreetsLandGunToolsInspiredColourPensAgricultureYoungstersSpilling Author:Narendra Modi
“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.” MindLittlesBehindsHellAirBloodWallRedHotBlueGreenGlassesCurrentsScalesNakedGrassFlamesSatanParadiseColourBreastsFlagsCandleBurnedGreyLampsPurpleHueAmberInfernoDevilishZionBlue BloodsGormenghast Book:Gormenghast Source: Gormenghast
“Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.” WorldFacesReligionReligiousDarknessBloodSkyRedDawnColourSunsetWizardsRestorationWrecks Book:Life and destiny Source: Life and destiny
“When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death enter me as you had entered me. You had crept along my blood vessels through the wound, and the blood that circulates returns to the heart. You circulated me, you made me blush like a girl in the hoop of your hands. You were in my arteries and my lymph, you were the colour just under my skin, and if I cut myself, it was you I bled. Red Isolde, alive on my fingers, and always the force of blood pushing you back to my heart.” IfsThinkingHeartMadeWholeBodyHandsFacesGirlForceCuttingAliveBloodReturnMy HeartMy FriendsRedSkinsFingersWoundsColourPushingTrapsVesselArteriesBlood Vessels Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?” WantFeelsWellsHeartStrongBloodComfortRedBlueToneColourVeinsHintsHueMagnolias Author:Jeanette Winterson
“With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.” IfsTryingWellsKindMadeEnoughShowsEyeSocialResultsBloodTearsEvolutionConscienceMirrorsDenyPassingPassingsColourSaltReserves Author:Jose Saramago