#knives

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. She understood why people talked about hearts "breaking"; she felt as if hers were made of cracked glass, and the shards were like tiny knives inside her chest when she breathed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fragile-love #glass #heartbreak #knives #love

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#book signings #guns #had #i #knives

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. ↗

— David Coverdale

#criticism #critics #dine #get #gets

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ↗

— E. B. White

#circus #commas #fall #knives #new

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. ↗

— Martin Yan

#drawer #especially #fact #full #i

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#always #army #does #go #i

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up. ↗

— Charles Manson

#come #help #i #just #knives

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#cut #either #grasp #handle #knives

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems. ↗

— Joe Namath

#animal #cause #dealing #firearms #going

The knives of jealousy are honed on details. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#details #honed #knives