Bloodshed Quotes

“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick on the uptake," he said with an impressed look on his face. "It's not fair. Flaminius always gets the hot ones. Does he have to get the smart ones too?”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“Mary was under water. She’d been under water for a long time. Rhiannon was there. No, it was just her severed head talking. The murdered girl’s hair billowed out from under the torc.”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“Don’t we know any. . .er. . .cheap lawyers?”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“Trust the body of your enemy. The body does not lie. Most people,” she’d looked directly at Mary, “most people do not know how to make the body lie.”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“There was no city, no London, just beacon fires on all three sacred mounds.”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“What about that old coot?” Janet looked suspicious. Mr. Jeffreys was from the world of officialdom she despised.”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“Wife of Lir eat horse.”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“No sleeping in the places of death.”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“Take it away,” she pointed at the green milk in a normal tone. “Anna and wife of Lir. Both must stay.”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“I EAT THE DARK”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“She was oozing backwards into the tree. Her bones were going to mate with the grain of the wood. I am becoming part of the forest.”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“[B]ehind the mother fighting for her son’s life was the priestess of the forest and the cup.”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

“We prayed these wars would end all wars --
In war we know is no romance."

(Done With Bonaparte)”
― Mark Knopfler, Golden Heart

“There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“I am becoming a tyrant, threatening in place of convincing. Unstable instead of steadying.

I am suited to the shadows, to the art of knives and bloodshed and coups, to poisoned words and poisoned cups. I never expected to rise so high as the throne. And I fear that I am utterly unsuited to the task.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“He’d seen a lot of blood today. That was all right. Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Strike first, draw blood, and take no prisoners.”
― MINK, Possessive Stepbrother

“I live here, yet I am not seen.
The world pulses with bloodshed,
that sends shivers down my spine.

Try, I do, to find places to hide
within the confines of these walls,
away from the rage of metal.”
― Susan L. Marshall, All the Hope We Carry

“Oh, god - this. This was what drove her out of her mind - this fire, between them.
They could burn the entire world to ashes with it.
He was hers and she was his, and they had found each other across centuries of bloodshed and loss, across oceans and kingdoms and war”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Where Storms Nest by Stewart Stafford

Time's arrow has left its quiver,
And mortal men denied a sliver,
Of sweet-faced solace or settled debt,
Surrendering all to sweeping death.

Beware the vixen with the perished pup,
Of merciless slight and sacrilegious sup,
Of mother's milk and witches' brew,
Curdling infamy and death's-head stew.

The trap is sprung, the rider unseated,
A mourning procession for the defeated,
A great wrong sits on the anointed throne,
She is Queen Bee and you, but a drone.

From a spider's web veil, she does regard,
Hateful glances from black heart's shard,
Envenomed nature of poisonous Man,
The scorpion's strike of a foul plan.

After seeking power and blood and lust,
Remorse a late guest to a dagger's thrust,
The vulture shrieks to the globe's outer rim,
That Man's ambition is a Hell to him.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Some soldiers wear silk robes, have pearly white teeth, and engage in handshakes instead of bloodshed.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Innocent teary eyes
Grief stricken face

You look everywhere with fear
And with feelings of helpless pain!

When you should be playing with
Dolls and dancing in the rain!

Neither do you like to wear new dresses,
Nor sing, laugh, and play with the toy train!

Oh my dearest sweet child!
Please forgive us all we men,

For we have made this world
Fit for only guns, bombs and
Acid rain!”
― Avijeet Das

“Grown men send children into battle throughout the world, all the time. Old men create conditions for conflicts, fuel hostilities, and pretend to defend core values—good against evil—whereas all they are doing is ferociously protecting their privileges while coveting the riches of others. They hatch toxic strategies, then send their children charging at the enemy.
To hide their deadly avarice, they speak with conviction about courage and patriotism while bunkered in their headquarters, in offices or on television sets while the blood of youths is spilled in combat, their spirits mangled by the ferocity of battles that will pollute their souls forever.
This vicious cycle starts all over again with every generation, because no war is ever won for good. Hatred feeds the desire for vengeance, which is transmitted alongside genes. The first drop of blood spilled at the dawn of the world triggered the bloodshed that we stubbornly perpetuate all over the earth.”
― Hemley Boum, Days Come and Go

“Bloodshed on screen is not the art of storytelling — just as the dictionary is not a work of literature. Crafting A-rated violent movies requires more than facts; it demands the alchemy of narrative, emotion, and purpose.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“As I see it, having blood on one's hands does not make one a hero.”
― Jin Yong, A Heart Divided

“The suffering was over; the killing and bloodshed had stopped. Mind you, the poverty—even there, in the richest neighborhood of Kabul—was shocking: the children barefoot, their wounds and scars evidence of deprivation and the brutal past. But while their faces showed their malnourishment, their eyes glimmered with hope for a better future”
― Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

“It's a tragic state of affairs, when we get used to the sight of blood. If the sight of blood makes you sick, it's good - it's a sign that your humanity isn't yet lost.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“I need a minute.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand, Illustrated

“Ma should marry our bio dad, and he can be our friend  but not our dad. You’re our dad, Da. And we’re the Furies; you can’t split us.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand, Illustrated