“My mother hid the knife block.”
“It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.”
“That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.”
“Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with a circus knife thrower, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.”
“I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.”
“The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.”