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1 " Sable hair bisected his pecs and arrowed down to the straight and unequivocal statement of his returned interest. Forcing my gaze to his face, I said, " I really don't think we have time for that." " You know that, and I know that, but HE doesn't believe it." " Believe it," I told HIM.J.X.'s mouth tugged into one of those heart-stopping smiles. " Maybe you should whisper in his ear. "
2 " As he shook off his servant’s grip and staggered heavily to his feet, the sunlight streaming through the outside door struck him full in the face.Samantha gasped.A fresh scar, still red and angry, bisected the corner of his left eye and descended down his cheek in a jagged lightning bolt, drawing the skin around it taut. It had once been an angel’s face with the sort of masculine beauty reserved only for princes and seraphim. "
― Teresa Medeiros , Yours Until Dawn
3 " The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. "
― Steven Pinker , How the Mind Works
4 " The page contained a single, unfamiliar symbol. It looked like a backward S with the diagonals of an open triangle cutting through it. A straight line bisected both shapes. Could be creepy. Could be nothing. "
― Erin Kellison , Until Dawn (Dragons of Bloodfire, #2.5)