Quotes About Tension

Afuera la gente camina a prisa, encogida, no como si aguardaran una tormenta, sino como si la tormenta ya estuviera aquí, sin embargo, nadie parece tener miedo.

Conversation became strained as they each waited for a sign that they would not be rebuffed.

Matt is a tortured soul,' Amanda insisted. 'He's Heathcliff and you're Cathy. He's Rochester and you're Jane Eyre. He's-' 'Darcy and I'm Elizabeth. I get it. And you're wrong.

Bastard," she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenly he was where he had been standing all along, the coward.

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

Stop it, or I will kill her, and you will lose your eyes and your ears here." And he drew his belt knife, and advancing to the serving woman, he laid the edge of it along her throat. The woman did not blanch or shrink away. She stood still, her eyes glittering, almost smirking at his threat. She made no response to his words.

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance.

When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if to pull my hand back, but my heart overrules it.

Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.

Because there is no fight like a church fight, all hell broke loose.

Oh, there was another swearword, not even on the cusp, even though he is definitely a shitbag." She smiled at him. "I bet you've just about had it with me, huh?" He pulled her close. "I've had it with you, all right. And not enough of it, either." "Oh,

I mean, if this guy is her brother, why is she so freakin' anxious to get away from him?

Hand still on her holster, she tucked herself beside the ice coolers and peered through the open door.

voice in this? For God's sake, Chase—" She caught the warning look in Chase's eye and stopped cold. This wasn't the time or place. He seemed to be silently warning her, telling her not to make a scene in front of the detective. "Baldwin was interested. That's all." "And so you met at the mill and then what?" Wilson asked. "We'd just left the office and were walking up the ramp to building

Good. Slowly, nerves as tight as bowstrings, she swept the weakening beam across the floor. Heart racing, ready to bolt, she tried to convince herself there was no one in the vault, no one but her and her own pounding pulse. She was wrong. A skeleton lay stretched upon a slab—a woman, she guessed, from its small size and the rotting nightgown and dark clumps of hair. "Oh, dear God." The corpse had been here a while—teeth

She was touchy. Maybe that time of the month, but he didn't dare suggest it. She might come unglued and go all ape-shit on him and accuse him of not being PC.

Khloe's mother—a

Spurred by fear , fueled by Adrenaline

You told me I was making you crazy last night, he reminds me, drawing me out of my thoughts, back to a present I'm uncertain of. You are, Chris. Well, you are making me crazy, too. Is this supposed to be making me feel better?

She set down the glass, palmed the

looked back at Bennie in panic as Declan tugged him away. By the time they'd rounded the corner

We froze. Neither of us moving, simply staring at each other, wondering if the other was going to move first. You are, he whispered, uncommonly stirring. He closed his eyes then, as if he had to in order to break the bond between us, then lifted me to the saddle and stared at the ground as he guided my feet into the stirrups.

She wanted to take those words back. But they were out, shattering in the air all around them, slicing them both.

Her throat felt constricted, breath