Gain Babenberg Blood

Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:

“When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“Those times I mussed his curly black hair
and touched his ten tar-fingers
and swallowed down his whiskey breath.
Red. Red. Father, you are blood red.
Father,
we are two birds on fire.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)