#blood

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#language #linked #memory #without

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. ↗

— Horace

#blood #brave #bravely #courage #crimson

Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#blood

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

#bloody #commit #democracy #did #either

So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous,” I breathed. He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.” And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. I closed my eyes, and the world around me faded. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#bloodlines #cute #dangerous #kissing #love

Bloody hell, Ma'am, what's he doing in here? ↗

— Elizabeth Andrews

#bloody #doing #hell #here #ma

There is no caste in blood. ↗

— Edwin Arnold

#caste

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. ↗

— Elizabeth Ashley

#blood #does #fonder #grow #heart

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#blood #concentrated #effective #serum #shock

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#blood #confederacy #fight #give #large