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Quotes About Confrontation

If not for you or your daughter, then for Nicky? Couldn't you do it for Nicky?' I stop breathing. My mother pales. 'You know what, Mom? You're right. Let me do for Nicky exactly what he did for me.' She wheels and with one savage sweep of her arm, she clears the table and sends everything crashing to the floor.
~ Laura Wiess
He was watching her,his eyes heavy lidded and filled with ire."The man in the bathroom wants to fuck you.Did you know that?" Yes,she knew.
~ Laura Wright
You saw me." Sara gasped and whirled around.Naked and aroused,nostrils flaring and fangs bared,Alexander towered over her,his mere presence forcing her back against the stone wall of the frigid tunnel.
~ Laura Wright
Sometimes the monsters are real . . . Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.
~ Lauren Bacall
He smiled and cut her off, he felt very secure, safe, out of reach; she could threaten him but she could not find him. All she could do was call and beg and bully, but that was only because he allowed her this luxury of contact. If he chose to, he could disappear entirely, and as soon as he had executed his plan that's exactly what he would do. Wait until it has all played out, he told himself, wait for the money and the big finale and then be gone.
~ Lauren Child
You shut up. I'm older and I'm not going to stay at your palace of decadence and deviance." --Brody to Erin.
~ Lauren Dane
Umm, let me see. Hmmm, what to say, what to say? Oh, I know. Fuck you.
~ Lauren Dane
I know your game, you know. You get nasty when you're backed into a corner.
~ Lauren Dane
A laugh burst from Nina's lips. "Not as awkward as it must be for you. Honey, please. If you bent around any harder trying to let me know you fucked Lex to try and make me feel bad, you'd be a pretzel. Although you're about as smart as one.
~ Lauren Dane
This right here is one of those relationship things. Your shit got mixed up with her shit and it all blew up like a shit bomb.
~ Lauren Dane
You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have to be nicer to me or... or..." "Or what?" he said. Still Lars, still charming and jokey, but with a thread of fear. It snaked in and pierced my numbness and almost broke my resolve. Almost, but not quite. "Or I have ti break up with you." I whispered What was there more to say? Nothing. So I hung up.
~ Lauren Myracle
your ass is grass...
~ Lauren Myracle
A person has to face up to things. You never solve anything by running away.
~ Lauren Tarshis
On August 11, 1520, Magellan carried out the sentence he had proclaimed for his nemesis, Juan de Cartagena
~ Laurence Bergreen
time he joined the ranks of explorers who became estranged from this vain ruler.
~ Laurence Bergreen
inhabitants burst forth upon them, and slue them every man with clubbes
~ Laurence Bergreen
then with one powerful blow, he severed Quesada's head from his neck.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan ordered a detail to draw and quarter Quesada's body.
~ Laurence Bergreen
It was astonishing that Magellan's nemesis would risk his life again, after all the carnage
~ Laurence Bergreen
One sailor telling another that his beard smelled of smoke was tantamount to provoking a fight.
~ Laurence Bergreen
In the Philippines, Magellan blundered into a confrontation with a combative local chieftain, Lapu Lapu.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Columbus physically attacked Fonseca's accountant, kicking and assaulting him as a proxy for Fonseca himself.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The king of Portugal had dispatched not one but two fleets of caravels to arrest him—a drastic measure
~ Laurence Bergreen