45476. “I catch sight of Luis with one of my bandannas on his head and my gut tightens. I yank it off him. “Don’t ever touch this, Luis.” “Why not?” he asks, his deep brown eyes all innocent. To Luis, it’s a bandanna. To me, it’s a symbol of what is and will never be. How the hell am I supposed to explain it to an eleven-year-old kid? He knows what I am. It’s no secret the bandanna has the Latino Blood colors on it. Payback and revenge got me in and now there’s no way out. But I’ll die before I let one of my brothers get sucked in. I ball the bandanna in my fist. “Luis, don’t touch my shit. Especially my Blood stuff.” “I like red and black.” That’s the last thing I need to hear. “If I ever catch you wearin’ it again, you’ll be sportin’ black and blue,” I tell him. “Got it, little brother?” He shrugs. “Yeah. I got it.” ― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry March 18, 2022
45475. “RED Here’s the red The red of love The fire that burns Within my soul The reddest red I’ve ever known The flame untouched Ignited coal Here’s the red The red of pain That stinging pain No one must know The deepest red I’ve ever felt The emptiness The mourning soul Here’s the red The red I knew That exalted fire That once ignited you The reddest red I ever knew… The deepest red I ever knew…” ― Trisha North, Safe: The Places I Go in My Head to Feel Acceptance & Peace March 18, 2022
45474. “The sky inside my head never turns blue. It if forced to stay red. By the demon, who is yellow inside me.” ― Akshay Vasu March 18, 2022
45473. “A monster, some called her. But in the shadows, only said in whispers, she was an angel in red.” ― Emory R. Frie, Enchanted Forest March 18, 2022
45472. “Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress.” ― Caroline George, The Vestige March 18, 2022
45469. “If you don’t like speaking much, wear red clothes; they will speak on behalf of you!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan March 18, 2022
45468. “I’m a wave, I thought: even when I’m breaking I’m strong.” ― Cara Delevingne, Mirror Mirror March 18, 2022
45467. “Long ago he called us ants, Red ants burning in the light of a Silver sun. Destroyed by the greatness of others, losing the battle for our right to exist because we are not special. We did not evolve like them, with powers and strengths beyond our limited imaginations. We stayed the same, stagnant in our own bodies. The world changed around us and we stayed the same.” ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen March 18, 2022
45466. “your veins are using up the redness of the world.” ― Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency March 18, 2022
45465. “Depriving someone of their freedom is the most despicable act imaginable. Anyone guilty of it should be BURIED so they can rot and be reincarnated as roses.” ― Mizuho Kusanagi March 18, 2022
45464. “If hot red is for anger and rage, pink is the color of a soft burning – hot enough to light up the dark corners of sadness and grief, but cool enough to be tender, innocent, open.” ― Ibi Zoboi, American Street March 18, 2022
45463. “I was hardly a fan of being berated like a child even on a good day, so seeing as how the last few days had pretty much buried the needle on the suckometer, my ability to quietly take my lumps was rapidly evaporating.” ― Kate SeRine, Red March 18, 2022
45462. “It was so—oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!” The Giver nodded. “It is.” “Do you see it all the time?” “I see all of them. All the colors.” “Will I?” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver March 18, 2022
45461. “I’d always imagined that I’d come up with something clever and pithy when it came to my last words, but as I stood there staring at those horrifying green eyes, I settled for a little startled profanity. How embarrassing.” ― Kate SeRine, Red March 18, 2022
45460. “What do you get when you cross an egomaniacal fairy godmother, an arrogant genie, and a couple of wandering plagiarists whose idea of cultural preservation is stealing the stories of unsuspecting villagers and passing them off as their own?” ― Kate SeRine, Red March 18, 2022
45459. “…we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens – blew them into the sea…” ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain March 18, 2022
45458. “I try to grasp the colour of my blood and all I feel is life slipping through the colourless veins.” ― Munia Khan March 18, 2022
45457. “To this day I still do not know why red shoes are sooo me. I think it might be that in a way the color demonstrates that though I am not much of a dresser I do have a fiery element in me and sometimes I even run with it.” ― gisela Hausmann March 18, 2022
45455. “It’s a bird of some sort. It’s like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors.” The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.” ― L. Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz March 18, 2022
45454. “When I was out on the battlements it was cool and I could hardly hear them. I sat there quietly. I don’t know how long I sat. Then I turned round and saw the sky. It was red and all my life was in it.” ― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea March 18, 2022
45451. “Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence.” ― Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy March 18, 2022
45450. “He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had ever seen him give, a smile that curved and softened the tight mouth, and warmed the ice-cool eyes; a smile that brought the blood to my face and made my heart turn over.” ― Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest March 18, 2022
45449. “I wrote a song called ‘Red’ and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they’re all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I’ve experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There’s nothing in between, there’s nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.” ― Taylor Swift March 18, 2022
45448 “Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.” ― Randy Armstrong March 18, 2022
45445. “Red: “I could tell he was grinning, when he said, ‘I have nothing but time, my little love. I have been waiting patiently for you to come for me again.’ ‘You mean come to you,’ I corrected. -Kate SeRine” ― Kate SeRine March 18, 2022
45444. “He couldn’t handle so much love. And so he drowned it in the pool. It wasn’t Red though. Turned out to be a sea of Blue. Blue, her color.” ― Anushka Bhartiya March 18, 2022
45443. “Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas. (L’eternità è appesa a questo momento.)” ― iscrizione su meridiana Middle Temple Londra March 18, 2022
45442. “red the colour of the rose red the colour of your lips red the colour of your tongue…. red the colour of your heart…… red the colour for your passion…..” ― Marina G. Roussou March 18, 2022
45441 “I had never wondered where he slept, but now I half expected a dark cavern with a bloodied altar for a bed. Instead it was a crimson mirror of my room: red-and-black tapestries instead of pale wallpaper; red-and-gold damask bed curtains instead of lace; and supporting the canopy were not caryatids but eagles, cast from a slick black metal that glittered in the candlelight. All around the edges of the room burned row upon row of candles, casting golden light in every direction so that shadow barely existed.” ― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty March 18, 2022
45440. “We were amongst the rhododendrons. There was something bewildering, even shocking, about the suddenness of their discovery. The woods had not prepared me for them. They startled me with their crimson faces, massed one upon the other in incredible profusion, showing no leaf, no twig, nothing but the slaughterhouse red, luscious and fantastic, unlike any rhododendron plant I had seen before.” ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca March 18, 2022
45439. “The sky is stained red with the blood of a thousand dying sacrifices.” ― Kelan Gerriety, Crimson Skies March 18, 2022
45438. “As she felt his fangs against her neck, she was in another world. There was screaming. A woman was somewhere in agony. Everything was black, and the tormented scream was overwhelming, echoing through the emptiness. After the screaming subsided, there was panting, loud and steady, and it wasn’t as dark anymore. There was a room visible now, in a reddish light. A pale man with black hair hovered over a woman dressed in white. She lay on a bed, looking disheveled and sweaty. Her brown-black hair clung to her wet forehead and shoulders. She was covered in blood. The man sat next to her, and held her close to him. He stroked her hair as her chest heaved desperately. “I love you, my dearest Katerina,” he said, cradling her in his strong arms. “Soon, we’ll be together forever.” Everything faded to black once more, and the woman stopped breathing. All was silent and still.” ― Dawn Bonney-Heath, Crimson March 18, 2022
45437. “We were amongst the rhododendrons. There was something bewildering, even shocking, about the suddenness of their discovery. The woods had not prepared me for them. They startled me with their crimson faces, massed one upon the other in incredible profusion, showing no leaf, no twig, nothing but the slaughterous red, luscious and fantastic, unlike any rhododendron plant I had seen before.” ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca March 18, 2022
45436. “Let me take a little second to tell you as we see a prophecy that came true You see we need to believe that He literally bled through The clothes on His back His sweat the day was just like crimson rain Crimson stains tide bounty and the devil can’t wash these stains away Who’s He you ask, He’s a friend of me Cause my inability He was sent for me I hear birds and trees they’re all telling me It’s a good thing He won Gethsemane Cause this enemy is too much for me And this flesh and world is triple teaming me It seems to be the very end I scream please oh please pass this cup from me! The thing is it did pass And it passes every day He took my cup from me and gracefully He drank the grave And I don’t mean to speak of blasphemy when I say But I am speaking of the day when my God passed away, Okay? No wait wait wait no that’s not it no that’s not all I don’t wanna leave you hanging This stories banging Against my throat and against these walls It can’t be contained no it won’t stay in here it will thrive Cause stories just don’t die when the dead come alive” ― Tyler Joseph March 18, 2022
45434. “His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapologetic but it grew on you like a wart on your nose you didn’t realise it was a part of your identity until one day it simply was. His room was his identity. Fiercely bold, avant-garde but never monotonous. He was red, he was black, he was bored, and he was fire. At least to me he seemed like fire. A tornado of fire that burned all in its wake leaving only the wretched brightness of annihilation. His room was where he charmed and disarmed us. We were his playthings. Nobody plays with fire and leaves unscarred. The fire soon seeps into chard and soot. The colours of his soul, his aura, and probably his heart if he didn’t stop smoking.” ― Moonshine Noire March 18, 2022
45433. “Her nightgown lay upon the snow as it might on a bed sheet, and the tracks that led from where it lay were never of human feet… An empty bed still waits for him as he lies in a crimson tide. Beware, beware, oh trapper men, beware of a griesly bride.” ― John Manifold March 18, 2022
45432. “The land is thirsty. People are thirsty. But only blood will bring back the rain.” ― Kelan Gerriety, Crimson Skies March 18, 2022
45431. “Wind and breeze are separated today Crimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soil We pretend to smile at every turmoil” ― Munia Khan March 18, 2022
45430. “As my good friend Will Shakespeare put it, the course of true love never did run smooth. You need not fear me, darling. I shall never again lift a hand to harm you. That would not bring me what I most desire, your love. Be forewarned, little one, that your life without me shall be a lonely one. Farewell for now, sweet child. All my love, Lord Simon Baldevar, Earl of Lecarrow.” ― Trisha Baker March 18, 2022
45429. “Tsukiko sits on the floor in the center of the room, wearing a red kimono. A beating crimson heart in the pale chamber.” ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus March 18, 2022
45428. “Mine is a heart of carnelian, crimson as murder on a holy day.” ― Normandi Ellis, Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead March 18, 2022
45427. “White emotions when fell in love turned red… -The Drenched Writer” ― Shonali Dey March 16, 2022
45426. “His eyes traveled the length of me and as they were doing this, he cut me off again. “Jesus, what the f**k you got on?” I looked down at my yoga clothes then back at him. “I just got back from yoga.” His eyes took their time sliding back up my body before they locked on mine. “You finish that Employee Handbook, you make that,” he tipped his head to me, “the dress code.” ― Kristen Ashley, Motorcycle Man March 16, 2022
45425. “It cleaves our hearts apart but it stitches them back together just as easily. It is the language of the eyes for they speak it more eloquently than words will ever do. You fall in it and it may heave you higher than the seventh sky. Nothing makes sense without it despite its senselessnness. It comes in different shades and colors and if you’re fortunate yours would be that of blood but it won’t have you bleeding. You’re a fool for trying to eschew its hold for it is everywhere but if you don’t you may wind-up feeling like a fool. Good luck” ― Ahmed Ghrib March 16, 2022
45424. “I catch sight of Luis with one of my bandannas on his head and my gut tightens. I yank it off him. “Don’t ever touch this, Luis.” “Why not?” he asks, his deep brown eyes all innocent. To Luis, it’s a bandanna. To me, it’s a symbol of what is and will never be. How the hell am I supposed to explain it to an eleven-year-old kid? He knows what I am. It’s no secret the bandanna has the Latino Blood colors on it. Payback and revenge got me in and now there’s no way out. But I’ll die before I let one of my brothers get sucked in. I ball the bandanna in my fist. “Luis, don’t touch my shit. Especially my Blood stuff.” “I like red and black.” That’s the last thing I need to hear. “If I ever catch you wearin’ it again, you’ll be sportin’ black and blue,” I tell him. “Got it, little brother?” He shrugs. “Yeah. I got it.” ― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry March 16, 2022
45423. “The sky inside my head never turns blue. It if forced to stay red. By the demon, who is yellow inside me.” ― Akshay Vasu March 16, 2022
45422. “A monster, some called her. But in the shadows, only said in whispers, she was an angel in red.” ― Emory R. Frie, Enchanted Forest March 16, 2022
45421. “Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress.” ― Caroline George, The Vestige March 16, 2022
45418. “If you don’t like speaking much, wear red clothes; they will speak on behalf of you!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan March 16, 2022
45417. “I’m a wave, I thought: even when I’m breaking I’m strong.” ― Cara Delevingne, Mirror Mirror March 16, 2022
45416. “Long ago he called us ants, Red ants burning in the light of a Silver sun. Destroyed by the greatness of others, losing the battle for our right to exist because we are not special. We did not evolve like them, with powers and strengths beyond our limited imaginations. We stayed the same, stagnant in our own bodies. The world changed around us and we stayed the same.” ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen March 16, 2022
45415. “your veins are using up the redness of the world.” ― Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency March 16, 2022
45414. “Depriving someone of their freedom is the most despicable act imaginable. Anyone guilty of it should be BURIED so they can rot and be reincarnated as roses.” ― Mizuho Kusanagi March 16, 2022
45413. “If hot red is for anger and rage, pink is the color of a soft burning – hot enough to light up the dark corners of sadness and grief, but cool enough to be tender, innocent, open.” ― Ibi Zoboi, American Street March 16, 2022
45412. “It takes many, many coats to cover the red. No matter what I do, it seeps right through, like the walls are bleeding.” ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places March 16, 2022
45411. “I want to make a heart in red flowers with blue flowers around it.” “Okeydokey. So, let’s look for red flowers and blue flowers.” We flipped, she picked blue violas (“painted porcelain” they were called, a pale blue with darker blue edges, very pretty,) and something called a “chocolate cosmos,” which was more burgundy than red, but still, it’s her garden. “Are they actually chocolate?” asked Clare, who had come back for a snack for herself and a rawhide chewy for Frank. “No, but it says here that they smell of chocolate.” “Hmm.” She’d fallen for that one before.” ― Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings March 16, 2022
45410. “Charlotte faceva sempre quello che le dicevo. Tu invece no. E questo è molto scocciante. Però anche divertente. E dolce.” Stavolta non fu solo il suo sguardo a farmi vacillare.” ― Kerstin Gier, Rubinrot March 16, 2022
45409. “Each sign was stamped with the rabbit symbol, hastily and sloppily, so white ink ran down and mixed with the red paint on the wood. It made a rather pretty shade of pink, if you didn’t pay attention to the meaning.” ― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday March 16, 2022
45408. “I improved my sleeping circadian rhythm with red and infrared light exposures.” ― Steven Magee March 16, 2022
45405. “Impressive stands of flowers, bigger than anything she had ever seen, lined the track. Red as blood and clustered around a stem taller than even the captain astride his fine horse. “What are they?” “The flame lily. Doryanthes excelsa. It derives from two Greek words- dory, meaning spear, and anthos, meaning flower.” He pored over the notebook again. “A truly iconic plant, indigenous to the Sydney area. The botanic name, Doryanthes, refers to the beacon-like flower heads that stand out in the bush.” ― Tea Cooper, The Woman in the Green Dress March 16, 2022
45404. “We walked back to his revived house in tender silence, the dry gold land freckled with young pines and red flowers.” ― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir March 16, 2022
45403. “the smear of red on the seashell lining of your skin is belle poésie” ― Avijeet Das March 16, 2022
45402. “I started to get very itchy ankles in my late forties and they were so itchy that I would scratch them red raw. The itching miraculously disappeared after I started hormone supplementation.” ― Steven Magee March 16, 2022
45401. “… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …” -Red” ― Game Freak March 16, 2022
45400. “I attribute my ability to diagnose and treat my chronic health conditions to the Red Cross and St. John’s Ambulance training that I did in my youth.” ― Steven Magee March 16, 2022
45399. “He had always understood me better, without words. So I laid my hand on my heart, held it there for a moment, and then moved it over and touched my palm against his breast.” ― Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest March 16, 2022
45398. “A woman I didn’t recognize tapped my arm. She was elderly, but still stood tall, her dark eyes bright with sadness. She wore a black brocade gown edged with red. She held out a bouquet of red carnations and white narcissus. She stepped forward and placed the flowers on Bartolomeo’s headstone, then stepped back and slipped into the crowd so fast I could not see where she went. I stared down at the flowers. Narcissus was a common spring flower at funerals, but red carnations meant only love, deep abiding love. I had never seen her before. Who was she?” ― Crystal King, The Chef’s Secret March 16, 2022
45397. “After a couple of days, James spotted something strange about the food they were eating. “It’s an odd thing,” he remarked to Jumbo, “but every single meal seems to contain at least one dish that’s red, green and white. Yesterday it was that wonderful salad- tomatoes, basil and that white mozzarella stuff. Today it was some sort of herby green paste on white pasta, with tomatoes on the side.” Jumbo screwed up his face. “What’s so odd about that?” “They’re the colors of the Italian flag.” “So they are.” Jumbo thought some more. “Probably a coincidence, though. After all, they eat a lot of tomatoes, so the red’s there from the start.” “Probably,” James agreed. But later that afternoon he made an excuse to drop by the kitchen, and peer over Livia’s shoulder at what she was preparing for dinner. “What are these?” he asked casually. “Pomodori ripieni con formaggio caprino ed erba cipollina,” she said tersely. “Tomatoes stuffed with goat’s cheese and chives.” Ignoring the fact that his mouth was watering, he said, “They’re the same colors as your flag.” Livia affected to notice this for the first time. “So they are. How strange.” “As one of the dishes at lunch. In fact, every meal you’ve cooked us has had something similar.” ― Anthony Capella, The Wedding Officer: A Novel of Culinary Seduction March 16, 2022
45389. “Some people are Red voters and some people are Blue voters, but I am a Purple voter because I can see good and bad in the policies of both and vote accordingly.” ― C.A.A. Savastano March 16, 2022
45397. “El derecho que tengo por nacimiento no es la felicidad, sino un país” ― Casey McQuiston , Red, White & Royal Blue March 16, 2022
45396. “The walls were painted red, and there was the painter up ahead, that candle-maned woman carving her way through the darkness, and carving her way through everyone she thought the darkness owned.” ― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker March 16, 2022
45395. “When you know that someone in the world is thinking about you and wants to be with you and thinks the world of you… and makes you fall in love with them over and over again…it makes you think that the world is a better place after all. Even when everyone is against you, it’s okay. Because you know there is always that one person who will never leave your side.” ― Isabelle Ronin, Chasing Red March 16, 2022
45394. “Jacob and Whistler bumped into Taberah as she charged down the corridor, her hair a fiery halo, as if the hordes of Hell were behind her.” ― Dean F. Wilson, Lifemaker March 16, 2022
45393. “Blood is blood and it’s all red. Show me what’s in your heart and in your eyes.” ― James Frey March 16, 2022
45392. “By pleasing her whims, I lost track of mine. A servant you’ll be, a friend she’ll see.” ― Pook, The Book of Pook March 16, 2022
45391. “REGRET FOR PEONY FLOWERS I’m saddened by the peonies before the steps, so red, As evening came I found that only two remained. Once morning’s winds have blown, they surely won’t survive, At night I gaze by lamplight, to cherish the fading red.” ― Bai Juyi March 16, 2022
45390. “Now the question becomes finding the right Red, saying the right thing, finding the right place, and doing it all without anyone noticing the prince and his future princess communicating with a wanted terrorist.” ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen March 16, 2022
45389. “Sunset angles through the heavy curtains, drawn against the light. Dust motes dance in the red beams, ash above a dying fire. I feel like I am inside a heart, surrounded by bloody red.” ― Victoria Aveyard, King’s Cage March 16, 2022
45388. “Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man’s blood that has been shed.” ― Fannie Lou Hamer March 16, 2022
45387. “I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.” ― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red March 16, 2022
45386. “A crescendo / pushing over the surface / for birth / & utterance / for red / to scatter over fields / like diphthongs / preserved with symphony notes / for earth.” ― Sneha Subramanian Kanta March 16, 2022
45385. “The smallest part of your brain / is where something holy / resides:…” ― Sneha Subramanian Kanta March 16, 2022
45384. “Father / Today I speak to you / in a language / akin to lightness…” ― Sneha Subramanian Kanta March 16, 2022
45383. “a combination of all childhood memory / fields of / rice / sugarcane / wheat / barley / cows & buffaloes tilling soil / the red light / of dawn / and tomato plants…” ― Sneha Subramanian Kanta March 16, 2022
45382. “The smallest part of the brain / is where something holy / resides:” ― Sneha Subramanian Kanta March 16, 2022
45381. “Father / Today I speak to you / in a language / akin to lightness.” ― Sneha Subramanian Kanta March 16, 2022
45380. “The color black has also been found to decrease memory performance in a number of studies. Other research by the University of British Columbia, on the other hand, showed that red boosted memory by as much as 31% more than even blue, a color that has been known to boost cognitive performance.” ― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know March 16, 2022
45379. “Scientists from Plymouth University and Durham University found that red also boosted the football players’ confidence, where the 68 top English teams from 1946 to 2013 won more games than they lost when they wore this winning color. Famed golf star Tiger Woods, who has won many games and golf championships wearing a red shirt, missed the cut at the May 2019 PGA Championship. Unsurprisingly, he was wearing a black shirt that day.” ― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know March 16, 2022