Blood calls to blood.

- George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

No blood at all. I could hear that phrase repeat itself in my head, louder each time. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood. No splatter. NO BLOOD AT ALL. Why hadn't I thought of that?

- Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed.

- Bible

Have you ever seen a person who was receiving a blood transfusion? The blood was precious, life-giving, and certainly not repulsive. The blood of Christ may seem to be a grim and repulsive subject . . .[but] the blood of Christ is precious.

- Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The old blood is bold blood the wide world round.

- Byron Webber

I should probably start with the blood.

- Robin Wasserman, The Book of Blood and Shadow

I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.

- Francis Marion Crawford, For the Blood is the Life and Other Stories

Whether this blood was daemon, human, or something else, it was still only blood, and blood was only the ink of life.

- Gabrielle Harbowy, Hellmaw: Of the Essence

You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you

- Dante Alighieri, Inferno