#venom

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. ↗

— John Updike

#advocate #blind #client #president #sir

Illium, his expression subdued as it had been for too many days, turned to her. “Mind if I have a go?” “Kick his ass.” Stripping off his shirt and boots, Illium held out his hand for one of Venom’s blades. Lips curving, Venom passed it over. “Sure you can handle me, pretty, pretty Bluebell?” “Did I ever tell you about my snakeskin boots?” A savage grin, and she knew Venom was about to bear the brunt of whatever haunted the blue-winged angel. Venom swirled his blade in hand. “I do think I need some new feathers for my pillow. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#fight #humor #illium #vampire #venom

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#head #his #jewel #like #precious

It takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the bloodstream, how close the venom is to the heart. As long as the heart keeps beating, poison spreads, healing, changing the body as it moves through it. Eventually the heart stops, and the conversion is finished. But all the time, every minute of it, a victim would be wishing for death ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#heart #transformation #twilight #twilight-saga #vampire

Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again.“Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper’s.” Venom raised an eyebrow.“You have hair prettier than one of Astaad’s concubines.” Ransom gave the vampire the finger. Venom grinned. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#hunters #ransom #vampires #venom #humor

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#hidden #more #venom

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #better #better place #boiling #comes

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. ↗

— Chanakya

#poisonous #pretend #should #snake #venomous

I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#believe #get #got #i #i believe