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1 " The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples... "

― Anna Godbersen , The Luxe (Luxe, #1)

2 " Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces. "

― C. JoyBell C.

3 " Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God. "

― Warren Ellis

4 " When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway. "

― Brock Clarke , An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

5 " Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

6 " By the time Bones announced it was Tammy's turn, I'd fallen in love with him all over again. Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him. "

― Charlaine Harris , Death's Excellent Vacation

7 " I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again. "

― Robert Walser , Masquerade and Other Stories

8 " It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day. "

― Dorothy Parker

9 " No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. "

― Isaac Babel , The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

10 " ..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's " Landslide," especially the lyric: " I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox. "

11 " Zoey~ 'Listen to me, whinning about money and a scarf. Ah, hell! I'm starting to sound like Aphrodite.'
Stark~ 'If you turn into Aprodite I'm going to stab myself.'
Zoey~ 'If I turn into Aprodite, stab me first.'
Stark~ 'Deal.'
Zoey~ 'Deal. "

― P.C. Cast , Awakened (House of Night, #8)

12 " He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing.
Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork and leapt from her chair onto the table. Lydia, who was seated nearest her, grabbed her ankle before she could dive at Mr. Collins and, presumably, stab him about the head and neck for such an insult. "

― Seth Grahame-Smith , Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)

13 " You want to stab me again, don't you?" He didn't look at all ashamed. " Think of it as testing the limits of your new abilities." I groaned. " I've created a monster." " I don't think someone who recently crawled from the grave should be throwing around labels like 'monster,'" he said, making sarcastic little air-quotes fingers. " It wasn't a grave," I sniffed. " It was a comfy four-poster. "

14 " The great William Shakespeare said, " What's in a name?" He also said, " Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill. "

15 " I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me." " You tried to stab me first," I objected without thinking. "

16 " A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that science has excluded. Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed will march. You'll read them, or they'll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them rotten. Some of them are corpses, skeletons, mummies, twitching, tottering, animated by companions that have been damned alive. There are giants that will walk by, though sound asleep. There are things that are theorems and things that are rags. They'll go by, like you could, arm-in-arm with the spirit of anarchy. Here and there will foot little harlots. Many are clowns, but many are of the highest respectability. Some are assassins. There are pale stenches and gaunt superstitions and mere shadows and lively malices, whims and amiabilities, the naive and the pedantic and the bizarre and the grotesque and the sincere and the insincere, the profound, and the puerile. A stab and a laugh and the patiently folded hands of hopeless propriety. The ultra-respectable! But the condemned, anyway. "

― Charles Fort , The Book of the Damned

17 " I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. "

― Franz Kafka

18 " I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? "

― Franz Kafka , Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

19 " But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. " " But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does." " No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. " Sometimes, they stab me in the heart. "

20 " It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.... "

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