Quotes About Tension

He slips out the door and Konstance sits with her back against the wall and Mother paces, chin jutted, forehead creased, and Konstance goes to the door and presses it.

The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action.

Antony was furious and responded with threats.

Euphrosyne leant forward, clasping her hands, and said to me: 'Have you killed him?' The question vexed me. It would have been civil to accompany it, at all events, with an inquiry as to my own health.

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

One car behind him. Two more ahead. The plane was now in

himself almost being torn in half as he was yanked out of the jeep on the end of the cord. In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath

And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.

That wasn't bad," Tom said. "Almost as good as Alex." "You've got to be kidding," Jack growled. "Alex would have blown them up or forced them off the road. Just a shame I forgot my hand grenade." "Next time," Tom said.

He was like an actor in one of those plays from between the wars where everyone talks for a long time but very little happens.

They were an audience … perhaps even a jury. My stomach was still churning. I felt like the condemned man.

And why would three old university friends who only saw each other occasionally for adventure holidays have suddenly come to blows?

There was a simmering hostility between them even now. Hawthorne was homophobic. It was his least endearing trait. I'm sure Spencer had picked up on it.

You've already said you're going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

Whodunnits are all about truth: nothing more, nothing less. In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed? The stories mimic our experience in the world. We are surrounded by tensions and ambiguities, which we spend half our life trying to resolve, and we'll probably be on our own deathbed when we reach that moment when everything makes sense. Just about every whodunnit provides that pleasure.

One day, he knew, he would have had enough. He wouldn't be able to control himself any more. And then what? He had no idea.

I didn't believe her. There was a nervousness in her eyes. I'd seen it when she held out the telephone for Damian. She'd been afraid he was going to snatch it from her. In fact, she was probably afraid of Damian.

warships. It wasn't exactly what

'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.

I can tell there's going to be a fight in a pub five minutes before anyone else.

Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.

I have anxiety every day about being pulled over.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

Sometimes my favorite directors are the ones I literally want to punch in the nose.