Quotes About Confrontation

if anyone wanted to turn her out now, they were going to have to use extreme and violent magic to do it.

Certainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.

Paulette told me she thinks Sylvia isn't hooking any more, and I finally figured out what that means. I've also learned why several of my housemates have perpetual runny, and sometimes bloody noses. Paul demonstrated how he arranges the white powder on a mirror laid on the kitchen table, but I declined his invitation to try it out. Too scary.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

Greenberg cites the example of a planter who was challenged to a duel because he told a fellow planter that he smelled bad. "When the man of honor is told that he smells," Greenberg writes, "he does not draw a bath—he draws his pistol.

So traumatic is the idea of jumping out of a window [of a burning building] that it is easier to pretend the fire will never reach us. It is the same with death: we know it is approaching, but we act as if it is never going to come. The vast majority of us, especially here in the west, construct our lives based on the denial of death.

Fee-uck, man. This game is still on. I get that sixty-two yet. I get his ass and whip it into shape. Damnright. I get that shitpiss sixty-two and beat his black ass into the ground. He's white, I said. I know he's white. They're all white. Everybody's white. Black fucks.

He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.

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Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.

Than the crunch of broken lives and bones. This is why when our eyes are languid And passion begins to seethe stormily in the breast, I want to write on your sentence One unquavering thing: "Up against a wall! Shoot!" 23

He totally underestimated the press reaction. First, the press thrives on confrontation. They also love stories about extremes, whether they're great successes or terrible failures. This story had it all. Perhaps most important, many reporters tend to see themselves as consumer advocates. Almost nothing gets them as outraged as a boondoggle that victimizes average citizens. The city's fiasco at the Wollman Rink was an absolute classic.

She had answered his questions. Whether he now had the truth was another issue entirely, one he chose not to deal with then.

Why was it that the words with which we confronted death always sounded so inadequate, so blatantly false?

Then I tug the toaster from the wall and swing the appliance around my head like a lasso. I'm not aiming to knock her out. I'm aiming to knock off her fucking head.

If it takes every cent of my money, every single one of my vast resources, I'll see to it that you never insure another vehicle again. When I get done with you, you won't be able to put on roller skates without the Feds breathing down your neck.

Frank," Andy said slowly, "I don't think the hellspawn wants to play checkers with you.

I picked up a transsexual hooker named Thor, all six feet of her, at the off ramp to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, as I was driving up north to kill a man.

When someone threatens me, I don't threaten them back. Bad people don't respond to threats. They respond to violence. The only time I point a gun at someone is when I'm going to shoot that person.

You've got no sense of humor." "I'm going to laugh really hard after I kick your ass.

This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do you?

Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]

Face to the reality.