“I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.” ArtBloodInvolvedBeatsFranceFancyMartial ArtsWrists Book:The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber Source: The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber
“If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.” IfsWantHouseBloodPaintingHorrorCostSixWideInchesBrushesWristsBucketsDip Author:Bruce Campbell
“This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.” CareTodayBloodBrotherReformHealth CareCovenantWristsSlitsHealth Care ReformBlood Brothers Author:Michele Bachmann
“They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.” WayBookWantedSimpleBloodStreetsBuildingBrokenClothesStonesFilledHungryMinistersPrincessTerrifiedRefugeePeasantsWristsBarbariansShackles Book:The Diamond Age Source: The Diamond Age
“Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.” KnowsLooksDiesWaterSunBloodMoonDrivenGrossWristsSlitsBathtubs Author:Holly Black