Blood ties Quotes

“All I know is, a writer ever walks into Homicide looking to shadow someone, I’m shooting them on-sight.”

“So now that you know my truth, let's talk about yours.”

“The desire to know the future gnaws at our bones. That is where it started, and might have ended, years ago.I had cast the stones, seeing their faces flicker and fall: Death, Love, Murder, Treachery, Hope. We are a treacherous people - half of our stones show betrayal and violence and death from those close, death from those far away. It is not so with other peoples. I have seen other sets that show only natural disasters: death from sickness, from age, the pain of a broken heart, loss in childbirth. And those stones are more than half full with pleasure and joy and plain, solid warnings like "You reap what you sow" and "Victory is not the same as satisfaction."Of course, we live in a land taken by force, by battle and murder and invasion. It is not so surprising that our stones reflect our history.”

“It felt odd to have interrupted the life of someone she knew nothing about, to kill someone she had only just met, as though killing needed intimacy, deep knowledge of the other, to make it all right.”

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.-Dylan Thomas”

“Accept to die before you live; you shall live free, then accept to live before you die, you shall have a beautiful life”