“Carrie was standing in front of them perhaps seventy feet away. The high beams picked her out in ghastly horror-movie blacks and whites, dripping and clotted with blood. Now much of it was her own. The hilt of the butcher knife still protruded from her shoulder... She stood swaying, her arms thrown…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.”— Amy Efaw, amazon.com
“Blood is really warm, it's like drinking hot chocolate but with more screaming.”— Ryan Mecum, amazon.com
“Mary started to scream, and then the curtains parted further and a hand appeared, holding a butcher's knife. It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream. And her head.”— Robert Bloch, amazon.com
“I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laug…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not…”— Mark Z Danielewski, amazon.com
“I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”— Clive Barker, amazon.com
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com