Best 10 quotes in «blade quotes» category

We match each other stroke for stroke until I get a hit on her right arm. She tries to switch sword arms, but I jab my scim at her wrist faster than she can parry. Her scim goes flying, and I tackle her. Her white-blonde hair tumbles free of her bun. “Surrender!” I pin her down at the wrists, but she trashes and rips one arm free, scrabbling for a dagger at her waist. Steel stabs at my ribs, and seconds later, I am on my back with a blade at my throat. “Ha!” She leans down, her hair falling around us like a shimmering silver curtain.

Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades

A blade can be nothing but a blade. Only the hand that picks it up knows that there was ever anything else worth holding.

Actually, he hadn’t just complained; she’d come home from school one afternoon and found him stabbing his paperback edition with a steak knife, the tip of the blade penetrating the cover and sinking far enough down into the early chapters that he sometimes had trouble pulling it out. When she asked him what he was doing, he explained in a calm and serious voice that he was trying to kill the book before it killed him.

Whoever is bruised fear not the blade.

A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn't hide. You didn't wait for the perfect moment to settle on you like a butterfly, like magic. You went out and made magic. Made your own wishes come true.

He who is bruised never fear the blade.

Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony

The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet.