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How do you accidentally kill a lord in his own manor?'
with a knife to the chest ... well a pair of knives actually, one can never be too careful — Brandon Sanderson

He's sitting alone at the kitchen table, a half-emptied bottle of white liquor in one fist, his knife in the other. Drunk as a skunk. — Suzanne Collins

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar. — Sue Grafton

A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife. — Matsuo Basho

You still may die in the Dregs."
Inej's dark eyes had glinted. "I may. But I'll die on my feet with a knife in my hand. — Leigh Bardugo

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

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself. — Patti LaBelle

My favorite knife is from Miyakoya in Japan - I have one in each of my restaurants. — Nobu Matsuhisa

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

I want him to feel what I felt every time he cut my heart with the knife of betrayal. — Jill Thrussell

Vores's settings fit Torgove's voice like a knife's sheath; they are alert to the harmony of every poem and to every shift of tonality within. — Richard Dyer

He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it. — Dean Koontz

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time. — Kimberly Perry

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

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. — Sam Snead

How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?"
"With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest ... — Brandon Sanderson

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

My chest hurts ... It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart. — Natsuki Takaya

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

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

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin. — Simone Schwarz-Bart

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

The other one knelt and rammed a long, thin knife right into Jasnah's chest. Shallan heard it hit the wood of the floor beneath the body. — Brandon Sanderson

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

He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue . . ." ~ Al Capone — J.J. McAvoy

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.

You know how when you're reminded of things, and you can't shut it off quick
enough? Like, before it slips the knife in and twists? Like that. — Lili St. Crow

2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart. — Franz Kafka

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice. — R.L. LaFevers

Her gut ached, as if love was being dug out of her with a dull knife. — Janet Fitch

I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day. — Micah Lexier

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy. — Sydney Smith

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. — Ezra Pound

I want to butter your bread, with my pointy butter knife. Til it's dripping off your bun, This salty elixir of life. — R.J. Lewis

Some arguments require a knife if you're to cut to the quick, others require the breaking of heads with a philosopher's stone. — Mark Lawrence

She is dark browed, sarcastic and occasionally mean spirited. A knife amongst all this flesh, The kind of woman who starts chaos in strangers all day. — Kate Tempest

Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks! — Elizabeth Peters

I looked and listened, but the only sounds were my soft, quick breaths and the faint plop-plop-plop of blood dripping off the end of my knife. — Jennifer Estep

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife. — Teresa Giudice

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. — Edward I. Koch

I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes. — David Eddings

Lord help me take the knife out of my back and not place it on my tongue. — Brenda DeMoss Lanz

It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife. — Gillian Flynn

I've got a bit of Scottish Blood ... On my kitchen knife!! — Milton Jones

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Hurts you. It is an everlasting pain in you, a wound that does not heal, a knife of flame. — Jack London

Ours is a lank country
and on the naked edge of her knife
our frail flag burns. — Pablo Neruda

With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife? — Anthony Liccione

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization. — Paolo Bacigalupi

In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood. — Andrew Tudor

Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared. — Laurie Halse Anderson

They were a well-mixed bunch of men whose mental sharpness ranged from that of a butter knife to an overripe plum. — Annelie Wendeberg

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb ... has placed us on the knife-edge of history. — Henry M. Jackson

Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it. — Hsing Yun

For me the game of love is much like hunting a man on foot with a knife. It's not over until the blade is clean. — Vladimir Putin

With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone ... — Rene Char

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.
-From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin — Robert Jordan

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

Bad men you want to kiss are the worst; he had only to use the right tone of voice and you offered your throat to the knife. — Patrick Gale

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing. — Gore Vidal

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization. — David Wong

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved. — Tiziana Stupia

You came back for me. You pulled a fucking knife out of my leg. What the hell did I do to get you to like me so much?" "You painted my toenails. — C.L.Stone

I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it's sharp as a nun on her second sherry. — Ken Bruen

Where did you live before you came here?" I asked.
"The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge. — William Shakespeare

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas. — Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it. — Ama Ata Aidoo

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife. — K. Martin Beckner

Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk! — Pawan Mishra

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife. — Dana Goodyear

No way!" I yelled, taking it from him.
"I can't believe I made a pink knife."
"It's so cute! I love it. Finally, a companion worthy of Tasey. — Kiersten White

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue! — Tamora Pierce

To create a kind of balance between a butcher and a sheep, you either take the knife from the butcher or teach the sheep how to use a knife! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you believe there's hope at the end?"
"No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me? — Patrick Ness

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience. — Deepak Chopra

The knife is is much sharper out of the box as it is in. And It's these knives which pretend more often than not. — Marc Duncan

In medicine the use of the knife is often the kinder course. — Stefan Zweig