“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
“red plastic rainher tears stain”
“Beckett found Eve, whose lips were still stained red with blood. Beckett found it hard to focus as he wondered if he was part vampire—he wanted to taste that blood so badly.”
“Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.”
“There was madness and magic in the slim body he held, and the lips turned up to him were red and trembling and he kissed her.”
“My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone”