Quotes About Resolution

I'm going to shoot somebody, Maddie said. Sawyer hates when people do that. It's a whole bunch of paperwork.

Sugar, Tara said in a voice that was pure Pissed-Off South. You need to go far, far away. A few weeks ago, he'd have taken that to mean she didn't want to see his face within a six-hundred-mile radius. Now he knew the truth. He distracted her. He could live with that. Came to see if I can help. I think I know how to make burgers, she said smoothly. But bless your heart. In other words, f*** off and die.

For the last time," she said urgently, almost desperately, as if trying to talk herself into believing it. "It's never going to happen again. Never, Wade." "Never is a long time.

We going to argue about this?" he asked. "Don't we argue about everything?" "Good point," he said. "Let's settle this one like adults— in the bedroom, naked.

I'm putting a temporary hold on the 'stay away from me' thing,'" she said. "just for a minute while I yell at you, and then we're definitely going right back to it.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

I can't believe I'm about to say this, I said. So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?

Troubleshooters? Michael asked. When there's trouble, I told him, they shoot it.

Wars and plans can't coexist, sir. One of them kills the other.

Eventually, it's better to go forward into it and have things settled than to huddle in terror for one second longer.

So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

Translation," I said. "We got around her fair and square. She won't like it, but she'll accept it." "Oh yeah," Thomas muttered under his breath. "This isn't coming back to bite anyone in the ass later.

it would be a real pity to die when I'd finally put tabs on who had gotten me into this mess—

It is easy to see the beginning of things, and harder to see the ends. I can remember now, with a clarity that makes the nerves in the back of my neck constrict, when New York began for me, but I cannot lay my finger upon the moment it ended, can never cut through the ambiguities and second starts and broken resolves to the exact plane on the page where the heroine is no longer as optimistic as she once was

After a while there were no more tule fogs at dawn and all Charlotte wanted was one night that did not end badly.

The error, if it was an error, had been there from the beginning. I left it as it was. Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

I rekindle a waning argument with the telephone company.

I quess when you bottle things up inside you, misunderstandings pile up.

I don't understand a word you're saying, snapped Odin. That's because you're throttlin' me, sir, said Sugar. Odin loosened his grip.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

If it's us, she whispered, how come you get to decide? When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.