Quotes About Confrontation

Mingan smiled and set Cathoair down, deceptively gentle. The Wolf leaned him against the wall, barely upright…and grabbed his chin in one hand, and the nape of his neck in the other.

Kit stepped close enough for Oxford to feel the heat of his breath, Will imagined, the naked blade angled between them as if laid down the center of a bed.

He stank of something bitter and sharp. His thumb moved across the scar on Cathoair's cheek, a sickening caress, and Cahey somehow got his hands up on Mingan's shoulders, and shoved. Mingan kneed him in the solar plexus, so if not for the Wolf's grip on his neck, Cathoair would have gone to the ground.

Two can play at Salisbury's game.

In the end, the wolf could own them both. Both on the same instant, possess them, prove at last who it was whose weakness brought down the Last Day, and the fall of all that was.

I could mess up the gravity and get squished. I could get sealed in and spend the rest of my objectively quite short but subjectively probably very long and unhappy existence like a jellyfish in the tubes, drifting along, unable to get out. And both of these seemed preferable in my head to the idea that I was going to have to climb out of this accessway and go get into a physical confrontation with somebody who was armed and didn't mind conflict in the slightest.

Once they get you to laugh the fight is over, because no matter how mad you are, nobody takes you seriously when you're trying to dress them down while giggling.

Rilriltok had apparently not expected to report to work and discover an enormous natural enemy next to its desk.

Muire's cheeks stung. She didn't want to think of them, or Mingan's obscene pleasure in finally having Strijbjorn under orders and biddable. Nor did she wish to think that the Grey Wolf had gone from hanging his deadly embrace over her, to having his way with this candle-flicker.

I'm not going to like you," I told her. "Your friends killed my friends. There's no payback for a debt as big as the one you owe me.

He didn't look at Baines, even as Baines leaned close enough to him that Kit felt his breath hot on his skin.

I was losing this round, and I neded to disengage without seming like I was running away.

the world was a place where those who had power could do what they wanted and those without it were the victims. The world would try to make him its victim, so it was always best to strike first.

Denial is a normal response to evil.

Because in this world there is always a monster. And often, the monster is you.

The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

sweet Shia, only bloody dragons would fly as fast as they could towards their greatest enemy! Anyone with sense would run the other way.

Then he asked angrily, "Instead of teasing me, why the hell didn't you tell me you had a famous, jealous maniac for a lover? I wouldn't have touched you!" Cat's eyes widened. Surprised laughter tugged at her lips as she turned to Travis. "Are you a famous, jealous maniac, Travis, er, lover ?

He says marriage is a continuous inevitable confrontation that can be resolved only through death.

I cocked my eyebrow at her. "Are you kidding me, Clare?" I indicated to the dead man on the broken pine table. "There is a dead Rogue in your kitchen." " Why is there a dead Rogue in my kitchen?" "Because I killed him in there.

I indicated to Karl slumped on the stool next to Clare at the bar. The fucking jerk didn't deserve a free lap dance, but it was the only way to get him away from Clare without ripping out his jugular.

My God, she was right. 'You never even stole that money and yet they fire you. I could just take Alva Johnson by the neck and make her eat dog shit.

You never even stole that money and yet they fire you. I could just take Alva Johnson by the neck and make her eat dog shit.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.