“It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”

“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
A herb most bruised is woman.”

“Family isn't about the blood you share. It's about the people willing to bleed for you." ---Maris - Born of Fury”

“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.”

“Whoever accelerates the media of earth, water and air centrifugally perishes unconditionally, for in so doing they reduce the Blood of the Earth (water) to a pathogenic state and make it the most dangerous enemy of all living and growing things.”

“Inside ourselves there lies the root of good:
the heart outweighs all talents on this earth.”

“It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.”

“… the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.”

“These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet;—

Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;—
Under the laurel the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.”

“This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.”