“She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.”
“This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.”
“Be glad you're even alive.'Be furious you're going to die.”
“...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...”
“Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.”
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”