326 Quotes About Poison

  • Author Peter H. Fogtdal
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    In my carpet bag are the mushrooms that I gathered in the woods. With two fingers I pick up a piece and look at it. Then I take a bite and wait for my body to react. Now I'm in a better mood. In a short time I'll be dead. Or alive. I'm not always sure that there's any difference.

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  • Author Colin Bord
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    The few cures we have recorded could be multiplied many times over, many of them experienced by people who had failed to find relief through conventional medical treatment. If a story from Scotland is to be believed, the success of one holy well, St. Drostan's at Newdosk (Angus), was so distasteful to the local doctors that they decided to poison the well. When the people heard of their intention, they banded together to attack and kill the doctors!

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  • Author Donnelly
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    Miles away, in the palace, the queen stares into her silver glass. She is so many things: powerful, brave, intelligent, fierce. But the glass never lets her forget what she is not - not a boy, not a son, not a man, not a king.

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  • Author Jennifer Donnelly
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    Venom can be drawn from flesh, but poisoned words lodge deep in our hearts, where no antidote can reach.

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