#blood

No adultery is bloodless. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#bloodless

Death doesn’t always want your eternal sleep. Sometimes Death just wants your eternity. ↗

— Jacquelynn Gagne

#death #fantasy #novel #paranormal #romance

When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only wish will be to die with grace, covered in the blood of my enemies. ↗

— Cedric Nye

#blood #death #fear #grace #horror

I wanted to thank Trent, but all I could do was give him a faint smile before I lost consciousness. Everything had worked flawlessly. I had planned the perfect murder - my own. ↗

— Terry Lovett

#death #heinous #murder-ballads-and-whiskey #death

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#nature

He was wide-eyed as he spoke. “He says you are a nut and I am a nut. ↗

— Karina Halle

#humor #old-blood #pippa #experience

You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now?” He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush or something. “Who says I wear panties?” I was certain that he flushed red this time. Laughing, I left him shaking his head and went on inside to find the Kid. We had work to do. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#faith-hunter #funny #jane-yellowrock #smartass #faith

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”) ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#family #family

It's not about blood," says Lucius. "It's about who you share your life with. Where you feel you really belong. ↗

— Emma Cameron

#blood #family #share-your-life #family

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#cold #family #friends #ice #support