Quotes About Tension

Persons of Aunt Ada's temperament were not fond of a tidy life. Storms were what they liked; plenty of rows, and doors being slammed, and jaws sticking out, and faces white with fury, and faces brooding in corners, and faces making unnecessary fuss at breakfast, and plenty of opportunities for gorgeous emotional wallowings, and partings for ever, and misunderstandings, and interferings, and spyings, and, above all, managing and intriguing. Oh, they did enjoy themselves!

Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity.

How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness?

I know I asked, but I don't want to know. I do want to know, but I don't want to know. It doesn't matter. If it's not Tayeb whoever, it'll be something else, and I'd always be playing catch-up. I was always playing catch-up.

Frowning, she looked up. "You can't want to ravish me every time we meet." Oh, yes, he could. Demon gritted his teeth...

He blinked at her visible honesty, at the earnestness on her face, and something inside him turned, knowing that he was the one responsible for the release of her tension. He'd made her feel better without even trying. What a guy. Then she reached into the tub, grabbed the gun, and shot him in the heart.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.

tension is the opposite of peace - but tension is the brother of silence.

In the Middle East, no one gets credit for a preemptive cringe.

The violent tension between honor and shame, so central to Middle Eastern cultures and tragically familiar to Israel, was alien to most Americans.

Although in the past I had seen a few exchanges of genuine affection between them, the Warshaw men were awkward and ill at ease with each other.

There's a fool of a devil in him that wants to feel the thrum of current. There's a current in him that wants to feel the devil in the wire.

Silence then, ominous, neither heavy nor light, the vast silence of a dirigible before the static spark.

There was more silence and Bosch pictured his partner on the other end of the line in a $900 suit and a bankrupt frown.

It's an angry world," Bosch said.

Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car.

reached out and yanked on it. The string

I am still angry, Detective Bosch

was squeezed between two large Special Ops officers in the back of a black SUV. It was seven a.m.

The next ten minutes took ten hours.

What about your play, Terry? Pushing past the little brother into the office. Like you didn't think that would start some shit. You pushed the action with that little move and you know it.

the pale light coming in through the French door leading to the deck I could see who it was. "Milton. What the—" "Shut up, asshole. You surprised to see me? Did you think I was going to let them wash me down the toilet without doing something about it?" "I don't know what you're talking about. Listen, there are