#bleed

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed. ↗

— Serena Williams

#bleed #heart #i #i am #robot

Torch strode over and stared at the fiver "What's this?" "Some change for you. Buy your flunkies some decent clothes." I dipped my fingers into the jar and smeared think fragrant paste on my face. Torch frowned, mirroring the expression on my aunt's face. "Change?" Oh, for crying out loud. "It's money. We don't use coins as currency now, we use paper money." He stared at me. "I'm insulting you! I'm saying your poor, like a beggar, because your undead are in rags. I'm offering to clothe your servants for you, because you can't provide for them. Come on, how thick do you have to be?" He jerked his hand up. A jet of flame erupted from his fingers, sliding against the ward. I jerked back from the windows on instinct. The fire died. I leaned forward. "Do you understand now?" More fire. "What's the matter? Was that not enough money? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #kate #magic-bleeds #poor #change

Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. "You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off." Did he expect anything different? "Hey, I didn't kick or punch you in the throat. I consider this progress. And you haven't choked me again, which is some sort of record for you... ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #kate #magic-bleeds #mouthing-off #progress

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door. ↗

— Ian Hart

#bleeding #doing #door #get #hate

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#bleeding #clean #cut #fighting #front

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created. ↗

— Barack Obama

#also #been #being #bleeding #created

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#bleed #going #may #me #somebody

I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now. ↗

— Dana Snyder

#dry #greedy #her #house #i

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#bleed #boxing #could #down #eight

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#grief #inwardly