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A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

You're such a romantic. Just like your brother. Do you know what he bought for me for our last anniversary? A knife sharpener. — Kim Fielding

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

My legs are still eagerly parting like butter for a hot knife. — Julianna Keyes

Like a butcher sharpening knife on knife
I sharpen heart on heart inside me. — Yehuda Amichai

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

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. — John Cheever

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed. — Philip Pullman

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming. — Koo Stark

When he comes back, I'm sticking to him like moss to a stone. You're going to have to cut me off with a knife to get us separated. — Suilan Lee

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

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle. — Bill Fitch

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. — Rabindranath Tagore

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul. — Bruce Springsteen

Anger cuts through a wide range of things. Cuts like a knife — D.B.C. Pierre

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

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

A man on a mission would bring his heaviest artillery, and it looked like this guy hadn't even packed a pocket knife. — Angela Richardson

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade. — Sally Jenkins

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

Religion is like a knife. If you use it the wrong way you can cut yourself. — Eric Weiner

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

He'll feel it though, feel the pain like a knife, sticking in his guts, twisting. Pain like that can either make a boy a man or a monster. — Anthony Ryan

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

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing — James Brown

Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess. — Dick Williams

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it. — Rebecca De Mornay

I love you more than anything else in this world. That's why your words were like a knife stabbing me in the heart. That's why you have to die, too. — Keigo Higashino

But in goodness there is no safety: virtue could cut like a knife, and the fire of heaven is blinding — Cassandra Clare

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? — Veronica Roth

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife. — Edward Thomas

It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light. — David Baldacci

The familiar sound of the kitchen knife, and the stove's smell, mom's back...
It feels like my life in Tokyo was
just
a dream. — Mika Yamamori

A knife. A silver knife, like the one that had cut out Alice's heart. — Rachel Hawkins

The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children. — George R R Martin

Jan was an excellent fuck ... she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her. — Charles Bukowski

Sharing his memories felt like handing over a sharp knife. A knife that others might handle carelessly. A knife that could be used to hurt him. — Matthew J. Kirby

She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun. — Patrick Rothfuss

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting. — James Brown

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

I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains. — Roger Federer

I can offer you only: this world like a knife — John Berryman

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently. — Wernher Von Braun

Memory entering the head like a knife.
A girl's hands slicing the heart in two. — Alfian Sa'at

You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning. — Van Heflin

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation. — Ford Madox Ford

Love is like a knife. It can either hurt you or it's too dangerous to hold on too. — PureDragonWolf

Embelish your flaws. They will turn into your assets. And if you become one of us, I will teach you to wield them like an assassin wields a knife. — Marie Lu

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. — Henry Miller

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose. — James O. Fraser

The darkness is like a black canvas punctured by a blunt knife, with beams of light peeking through. — Tahereh Mafi

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships — Geri Halliwell

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere. — Marissa Mayer

The next person who tells me something like, "Squiggle-fuck the rightwise cock-swatter with a starboard jib," is going to get a knife to the throat. — Scott Lynch

Her beauty was like the edge of a very sharp knife. — Janet Fitch

It seemed like he'd gone out of his way to hurt me, driving a knife into my heart and then twisting it so that there was no way I could yank it out. — Iva-Marie Palmer

I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight... — Camilo Jose Cela

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

The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood. — Anne Sexton

To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like. — Sarah Palin

Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife. — Pat Burns

An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight. — Lee Child

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget. — E. J. Holub

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back. — Desmond Tutu

Proposing is like giving someone your dick and a sharp knife, then waiting to see what they do next. — Penny Reid

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

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

A wife can give you strife. A wife can act like a knife, and a wife can help you have a good life. And the same goes for husbands. — Art Hochberg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. — Gautama Buddha

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. — T.E. Lawrence

Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you're looking for a knife. — Dana Gould

The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him. — Tim Cahill

Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife. — Dana Gould

God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade. — C.J. Langenhoven

I come in peace,' Sorrow drawled, offering him the knife hilt-first. 'This was just in case I met anyone I didn't like on the way. — A.F.E. Smith

Meaning to ask, where'd all them scratches come from? Lookin like you had yourself a knife fight with a dwarf, aye? — Stacia Kane

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

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. — Vera Farmiga

As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver. — Oscar Wilde

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

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator. — Homer

If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee ... — M. E. W. Sherwood

My Personality
unfolding before you
like a Swiss Army knife. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil. — Rick Riordan

It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right ... — Bryan Adams

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

At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs. — Gordon Banks