Quotes About Confrontation

Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

I never again want to hear that self-admiring voice of yours or see your smug fucking lily-white face.

The deeper reasonability of seeking danger is that there is, in any event, no escaping it.

Realistic hope permits a dying person to confront reality, but at the same time gives strength to go on living.

Well hear this,' she hissed in my ear. 'Hear this Mary. I am playing my own game and I don't want you interrupting. Nobody will know anything until I am ready to tell them, and then they will know everything too late.' 'You're going to make him love you?' Abruptly she released me and I gripped my elbow and arm where the bones ached. 'I'm going to make him marry me.' she said flatly. 'And if you so much as breathe a word to anyone, then I will kill you.

The queen sees me coming, turns toward us and waits, with a killer's patience, for me to reach the chancel steps.

When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

Anne shook her head. "I'll not be safe until she is dead," she said. "Just as she will not be safe until I am dead. It is not just a matter now of a man or a throne, it is as if I am her shadow and she is mine. We are locked together till death. One of us has to win outright and neither of us can be sure that we have won or lost until the other is dead and in the ground.

Wally Hatford, huh? , Caroline said to herself. Well, the Hatfords would soon find out they were no match for the Malloys.

I don't care , she thought angrily, turning all her anger back onto Wally again. I am going to make him as miserable as I can this Christmas, and if we're both stuck in fourth grade for the rest of our lives, he'll be sorry he ever heard the name Malloy.

Do you seek to bribe Death?" Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious.

Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

might is still right, but the might is the weakness of the many combined against the strength of the few.

You might easily be annoyed with me as people are when they are aroused from a doze, and strike out at me;

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Cliff never wondered what Americans would do if the Russians, or the Nazis, or the Japanese, or the Mexicans, or the Vikings, or Alexander the Great ever occupied America by force. He knew what Americans would do. They'd shit their pants and call the fucking cops.

Ninety-seven percent of everybody you've ever met in your life, and ninety-seven percent of everybody you'll ever meet in your life, have spent ninety-seven percent of their lives running away from fear.

Achamian had felt more than faintly alienated by this talk, as so often happened when confronted by another's excessive enthusiasm.

Are you armed? Oliver asked her. She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively held back. No. Lie to me again and I'll put you out on the street and do this myself. Claire swallowed. Uh, yeah. With what? Silver-coated stakes, wooden stakes, a crossbow, about ten bolts . . . oh, and a squirt gun with some silver-nitrate solution. He smiled grimly at the dark windshield. What, no grenade launchers? Would they work? I choose not to comment.

Faster! Shane yelled. Eve hit the gas hard, and whipped around a slower-moving van. The firing ceased, at least for now. You see why I didn't want you to stop? Okay, your father is officially off my Christmas list ! Eve yelled. Oh my God, look at my car!

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better. Define BETTER with that guy. Not all fangs and raaaaar.

Is it him?" Dad asked. "Did he get you into trouble?" "Not me," Shane said. "I've just got that kind of face.

Don't," Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. "You try to hurt her again and I'll pull your arm off.