Quotes About Confrontation

She despised cowardice, and yet here she was on the brink of it herself.

Yes, it was. More horrible than I ever want to think of again. But looking away doesn't solve anything

How did you tell people something they did not want to know? What did you need to say to have them question the bedrock on which their beliefs of themselves were built?

Kindly go to Hell! (Lestat to Oncle Julien's ghost)

No te vayas al infierno sin presentar batalla

Is there any one of us who doesn't want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old, so clear and strong that he could slip his warm hand in mine, he could lift me in the air, yes, lift my body, but I refused him. I turned my back on him. I told him, You go back to the hell from which you came. And I used my power to fight him.

His throat felt like marble. She could not snap the bones! But he could not throw her off, either, no matter how hard he tried.

In spite of Pops trying to restrain me I followed the sheriff all the way to his car, hammering on him about those two bodies: 'You've got to check and see who's missing! I'm telling you, I saw it. Two bodies, just dumped out there. You've got to search.

I felt a shudder. It is I who summoned you. Who spoke those words? Beware for you would be stolen from me now and I will not have it.

I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is a thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.

The intimacy with evil is something which I must bear.

He barely hesitated. Then shall I ruin you, dragon? Yes please, she said. And she let the brown dress drop on the floor between them, closing her eyes once more.

He'd reached the door, then stopped for a moment, looking back at Elinor, staring at her. Master Francis... Mrs. Clarke said in a warning tone. I just wanted to take a last glance at her exquisite feet before you covered them up again. It might be a while before I see them again. It will be never, Elinor said, crossing her arms over her chest. Don't count on it, my pet. Whatever scurrilous lies Mrs. Clarke spreads about my so-called goodness, she'll have to admit that I always get what I want.

He was trying to rape me. Again that long, assessing, intimate look. I can sympathize with the temptation, he said, half to himself.

He'd done his best to ignore the angry, veiled invitation in the little virgin's eyes, the one she didn't even know she'd issued. But now she'd delivered herself to him, he could hardly resist, now, could he?

I'll see you in hell." "Ah, but you'll be there first, my dear. Move.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too

When a single nation's armies are ordered against each other, all is lost.

The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor.

If contemporary America doesn't develop ways to publicly confront the emotional consequences of war, those consequences will continue to burn a hole through the vets themselves. I

This is the war too, and you have to look straight at it, I told myself. You have to look straight at all of it or you have no business being here at all.