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Quotes About Tension

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
~ Quentin Crisp
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
~ Herta Muller
where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
~ William Shakespeare
When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.
~ Meher Baba
Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?
~ Nancy Werlin
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
For Georgina Sparks, love is always a battlefield.
~ Kristen Bell
I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.
~ Candice Accola
I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.
~ Stanley Donwood
Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum
~ Janet Evanovich
Sometimes love don't feel like it should, you make it hurt so good.
~ John Mellencamp
Harry and Draco have a very weird love/hate relationship.
~ Tom Felton
I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.
~ Aaron Paul
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
~ Roberto Bolano
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.
~ Raymond Chandler
God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
~ Anne Enright
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
~ Cab Calloway
The most intense hatreds and also sometimes the most intense love is within families.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
If you lean too far in one direction, something else in you leans equally far in the other.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Jacob cut his gaze to me. I wasn't quiet sure how to convey, /I know we hate him, but based on the circumstances, it was the most logical thing to do/, with a nonverbal signal. I widened my eyes a little.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment Nacib did not love her. He did not hate her either. He beat her mechanically, as if to relax his nerves from the tension of suffering. He was empty like a vase without a flower. He felt a pain in his heart as if someone were slowly pushing a dagger into it. He felt neither hate nor love. Just pain" (366).
~ Jorge Amado
La paz duerme a la sombra de las espadas
~ Jorge Fernández Díaz