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Quotes About Blood

I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear... ?!?!
~ Rick Riordan
Satyrs aren't dryads, but we have roots, too. Camp Half Blood is mine.
~ Rick Riordan
And why shouldn't Piper intimidate them? Aphrodite was the most ancient Olympian, born of the sea and the blood of Ouranos. She was older than Poseidon or Athena or even Zeus. And Piper was her daughter.
~ Rick Riordan
Annabeth put her hand on his arm. 'If the giants want our blood, the last thing we need is a boy and a girl going down there together. Remember? They want one of each for their big sacrifice.' 'Then I'll get Jason,' Percy said. 'And the two of us –' 'Seaweed Brain, are you implying that two boys can handle this better than two girls?' 'No. I mean … no. But –
~ Rick Riordan
He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. In my day, we used animal blood, the ghost mumbled. It's perfectly good enough. They can't taste the difference. I will treat them with respect, Nico said. At least let me keep the toy, the ghost said.
~ Rick Riordan
Nico grit his teeth. "Demigod blood. The blood of Olympus.
~ Rick Riordan
I am bound to the unknown and neglected Stuart-Murrays by spiralling tapeworms of genetic material. We are, dead and alive (but mostly dead, it seems) the glowing molecular dust of stars, a galactic debris of bacteria and germs. Our veins are the colour of delphiniums and lupins, our arterial blood a febrile brew of crushed geranium petals and hot-house roses, thinned with plasma like catarrh and -
~ Kate Atkinson
I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.
~ Kate Chopin
War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.
~ Kate Forsyth
By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again
~ Kate Forsyth
Come to us and quackle and quank. Relieve us of our stirrings With your fangs so sharp and bright Take this blood that's always purring. Through our hollow bones it flows To each feather and downy fluff. Quell the terrible, horrid urge that so often prinkles us, Still our dreams, make slow our thoughts Let tranquillity flood our veins. Come to us and drink your fill So we might end our pains. - The Owls at St. Aegolius calling to the bats
~ Kathryn Lasky
He played for over an hour, and I felt a peace steal over my soul, and yes, I felt the bruises in my heart. But to be bruised is to be human, to be coursing with blood. For bruises are caused by blood spilled under the skin. They are the tears that bleed inside.
~ Kathryn Lasky
The quality of life in this city stinks. Is almost nothing. Most people now are deaf-mutes only inside they're screaming. BLOOD. A lot of blood inside is going to fall. MORE and MORE because inside is outside.
~ Kathy Acker
Mania is a strange and driving force, a destroyer, a fire in the blood.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Josie often had to go for medical examinations, I said. They took samples of her blood and other things. Josie never liked those examinations. They hurt her. Do you think there could be a way of making those examinations nice for her?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
You're much the senior in years, Master Axl, but in matters of blood, it may be I'm the elder and you the youth. I've seen dark hatred as bottomless as the sea on the faces of old women and tender children, and some days felt such hatred myself.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
He glanced down at the blood-smeared cut on his side...and realized he wasn't wearing any clothing. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't realized it already. Kind of obvious. It wasn't like he'd been going to take time out to find his clothing before stopping Liam.
~ Kelley Armstrong
What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Erau frati vitregi, dar mai strans legati decat oricare alti frati de sange pe care-i cumosteam eu.
~ Kelley Armstrong
If she was still wearing the muzzle and rope, then they--" "--wanted it to look like she really escaped," Sam said. "There's blood on the rope," I said. "That means she pulled free from whoever had her." "Or they're very detail-oriented.
~ Kelley Armstrong
There is blood everywhere and I am lost in it. I breathe blood, not air.
~ Kelly Cherry
unas manchas de sangre tiñeron la nieve; de un rojo brillante a juego con la bandera que ondeaba encima.
~ Ken Follett
She runs in my blood and beats in my heart; she is part of me, always, so I don't have to picture her to remember her.
~ Ken Wilber
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus himeself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
~ Paul the Apostle