Quotes About Tension

Love and hate have just a knife's edge between them.

The worst enemies are the ones that live next door,

When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin.

The memory of that unfortunate meeting hung between them for a moment like a fart,

And here it is. That horrible, beautiful, stretched out moment between stubbing your toe and feeling the hurt. How long do I have before the pain comes? How bad will it be when it does? Gasping, slack-jawed at the foot of the steps, Glokta felt a tingling of anticipation. Here it comes… The

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot." "That I will, unless he gets me under his." "Never easy, kicking upwards.

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

The door beside him opened sharply and Glokta snapped his head round, doing his best to hide a grimace as his neck bones crunched. Lord Ingelstad stood

War is but the pricking point of politics.

War's ninety-nine parts boredom and, now and then, one part arse-opening terror.

High ideals and reality are like oil and water," muttered Vick. "They don't mix well.

There can be no peace with the damn Vanstermen,

Love and hate have just knife's edge between them.

Fuck,' he whispered. 'Aye,' said Shivers. Craw almost took a tumble on the wet grass. 'Til he remembered there was an awful lot a man could be saying fuck about. That's the beauty of the word. It can mean just about anything, depending on how things stand. Horror, shock, pain, fear, worry. None were out of place. There was a battle on.

For the briefest moment he almost kissed her, and he almost pushed her off the roof. Perhaps it was only because he could not decide which to do that he did neither one.

NOTES FROM THE AUTHOR Recent geopolitical events have served to remind us all of important old lessons: The world is a volatile, dangerous place. Victory in one war can unpredictably heighten global tension and instability, creating power vacuums to be filled by ambitious new terrorists and tyrants, triggering more armed strife. International coalitions ebb and flow, but the proliferation of weapons of

The most important fact about the war to most people was that if it ended suddenly, Earth's economy would collapse.

Talking to her now was like flailing his hands at a storm of hornets. It did nothing, and it stung, and yet he couldn't stop himself.

She was trying to pull it up to stick it through his throat, but he had her wrist, kept the blade down and his face turned away from its questing edge

If hell was anything, it was talk radio—and family.

He felt that when his little men were painted well, they possessed a tension, a suggestion that they might, at any moment, begin to move on their own and charge the French line.

She's talking about cutting a bitch. She'd

You want to be able to read such stories in just one or two sittings. You want them to feel like a hand on your throat.

Vic stared at her, incredulous. "What do you mean you don't know why?" Vic asked her. "He isn't coming home because of you, Mom. Because he can't stand you. Because all you ever do is bitch at him, stand there and bitch when he's tired and wants to be left alone.