“A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.”

“Blood squirted as his transected femoral artery haemorrhaged to the rhythm of his horrible heart.- From Potter's Field”

“Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.”

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”

“You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara)You don’t ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to sever their arteries, or puncture organs, and it makes it even messier than normal. (Nykyrian)”

“The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.”