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Dance floors would bleed from the knife of her dress — Dionne Brand

The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword — Libba Bray

Here it was, the first of many lies he'd have to come up with. "Bella threw a knife at my head." He'd do better with the next lie. — Nicole Castle

life is a knife and it stabs — Mira

Every weakness exposes flesh, and flesh invites a knife. — Victoria Schwab

High house shadow, and a knife in the dark. A new game's begun, or the old one's just turned. — Steven Erikson

Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film 'Spartan.' — Rebecca Pidgeon

Australia is really a lot like Texas if Texas were mad at you and drunk and maybe had a knife. — Jenny Lawson

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. — Charles Buxton

How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades. — Billy S. VanOrsdol

Only one thing is certain: we live on a knife edge. In — Bill Bryson

It was a knife of an idea, a cruel instrument of sacrifice, but also one of great beauty, silvery, curved, dancing with light. — Peter Carey

I feel a joy so strong it's almost painful - a knife's edge of joy. — Christina Baker Kline

You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy. — Margaret Atwood

The money The girl stiffened at something she heard in his voice, something jagged and sharp, like words torn by the blade of a knife. — Billie Letts

Never bring a knife to a gun fight, I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks about it for a moment, then falls off. — Charles Stross

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. — John Owen

She stabbed him with her wicked pretty knife, disrupted his simple life.
She's a player, a heartbreaker,
and now she breaks alone. — Coco J. Ginger

But, when she was alone, someone rapped on the door and she found herself on her feet, knife in hand, before she had time to reason with her fear. — Ruth Downie

To those who value words of affirmation, criticism feels like a knife in the heart. — Paul E. White

He's a gypsy killer. He has a special gypsy killing knife. — Coco J. Ginger

You made your own jean shorts ... with a butter knife? — Richelle Mead

It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife. — Alanis Morissette

He had his knife and gun belt on over his underwear, in case of sudden attack. — Larry McMurtry

She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy. — Spencer Ellsworth

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I would never hit a woman - even if she had a knife or a stutter. — Anthony Jeselnik

I mean, I wanted to shove a pocket knife into each of his tires within the first fifteen minutes of meeting him. — Christina Lauren

He danced on the knife's edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. — Taylor Momsen

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it. — Banksy

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. — Steven Brust

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife. — Alice Hoffman

I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one. — Redd Foxx

Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice. — Damian Marley

I tried very hard not to ponder the horrible irony that I was too ugly to love, and too ugly not to violate. — Amy Lane

Raffe looks over at the bloody knife in my hand. If I still had any doubts that it was you, that would do it. — Susan Ee

The thought makes me reach back for my knife, my sharp, throat-cutting security blanket, as I look around. — Kendare Blake

Christ, Miri, murder and knife-wielding assassins aside, you are the greatest adventure of my life. — Kristen Callihan

Suck on that, Smurf." She wiggles her fingers at Haeden. "Now gimme a knife. — Ruby Dixon

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over. — Veronica Roth

Who the hell did that
just sat around, sharpening his knife collection like it was no big deal? — Kit Rocha

I felt the glare on my back, knowing that if it were a knife, I'd be incapacitated instantly. — Rebecca Donovan

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical. — Timothy Ferriss

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife. — Mahatma Gandhi

I learned how to do that from him, how to use a knife
gracefully like it's an extension of my limb.
I just use it differently. — J.M. Darhower

When I used my knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature. — Andrei Chikatilo

A werewolf who fights with sword and dagger," he said, "is as unnatural as a dog who eats with a fork and a knife. — Cassandra Clare

I asked "What do you even do with a chimera?"
"What wouldn't you do with a chimera?" Jeff asked. "They're like the Swiss Army knife of animals. — Chloe Neill

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. — Sophocles

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did. — Bobby Darin

She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. — Virginia Woolf

Oh dear, I forgot my friend is invulnerable and took a knife for him. Oops. — Rick Riordan

The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife. — Henry Glassford Bell

Show me your knife.' Man don't got a knife, I got no use for him - it's the universal tool. — David Wong

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp! — Andre Norton

Power is like a knife. It can be used to cut bread to share with your neighbor or stab you in the back. — Sadiqua Hamdan

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife. — Louise Bourgeois

She ate with good manners, using the knife in the French way to push things onto her fork. She — Ashley Gardner

If I can wheedle
A knife or a needle,
Why not a Silver Churn? — W.S. Gilbert

Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time. — Robin Hobb

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade. — C.J. Langenhoven

You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out. — Terry Pratchett

Keeley used the opening to bury the knife into Hank Scarlett's heart. It took three tries. — C.J. Box

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor. — Harry S. Truman

The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake

A well trained person needs only a knife to survive. — Mors Kochanski

but a clean knife still makes a painful wound. — Erin Watt

It's the dull knife that cuts you. — N.D. Wilson

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight — Josh Sundquist

Either you're with me or you're against me. I can't afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back. — Kyra Dune

There was a barber and his wife. And he was beautiful. A proper artist with a knife but they transported him for life. And he was beautiful — Anonymous

Work with Evangeline Black? I'd rather be slit open from navel to nose." -CORBIN BLUE
"Good thing I always carry a knife." -EVIE BLACK — Gena Showalter

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife. — George R R Martin

...drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife. — Iain Sinclair

people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself — Rupi Kaur

The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off. — Joseph Heller

Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes. — Anthony Liccione

It's the people who smile at you during the day while plunging a knife in your back that are the monsters. — Katie McGarry

She is carrying round a pizza cutter 4 protection. She's so freaked. She wants me to carry a steak knife. — Carrie Jones

[R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine. — Kato Lomb

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat. — Jamie Oliver

Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me. — Maria V. Snyder

They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood — William Golding

You'd better eat that," she says.
"I'm taking it easy on my stomach," I protest. "Come on. It just had a knife in it. — Kendare Blake

My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive. — David Rakoff

The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out — Robert Jordan

Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time. — Marie Lu

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel. — Meera

betrayal knife does not visible in body's back Because it's directly hot Soul and Injured There — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

He knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all. — R. Scott Bakker

Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart. — Mary Jo Putney

I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife. — Caroline Kepnes

Freedom is like a man who kills himself
Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
Grows sharp in blood. — Wallace Stevens

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is ... — Henry David Thoreau

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving. — Patrick Ness

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and - somehow - the wine. — Billy Collins

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst. — Laurell K. Hamilton

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife. — Cornelia Funke

You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave? — Henri Charriere