“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.”

“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

“A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.”

“I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.”

“There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.”

“There is no jesting with edge tools.”

“He nothing common did or mean
Upon that memorable scene,
But with his keener eye
The axe's edge did try.”

“The tool that is so dull that you cannot cut yourself on it is not likely to be sharp enough to be either useful or helpful.”

“The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.”

“Cold and sharp in the edges, full of fire and warm under the surface”