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Quotes About Tension

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.
~ Sean Durkin
There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions.
~ Simone Elkeles
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
~ Willem de Kooning
I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
I think America is just so in love with conflict.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.
~ David Levithan
I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me
~ Jonny Lang
Octavius, calm down.""How can I? When you touch my cousin more freely than you touch me? When I walk in, hoping to see my beautiful mate, but I see her with him!
~ noehen, Octavius
I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.
~ A. Zavarelli, Echo
Ah, nosotros hombres y mujeres somos como cuerdas en medio de diferentes fuerzas que nos tiran de diferentes rumbos.
~ Bram Stoker
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pulls us in different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until the strain becomes too great, and we break.
~ Bram Stoker
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be. I did not like to wound him by pretending not to see
~ Bram Stoker
Plötzlich hob er seinen Blick und spürte in der Luft dieses unheimliche Etwas kurz vor Morgengrauen, das den Menschen ein Gruseln einflößt.
~ Bram Stoker
A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. That was awesome, Seth told Kendra. You're psychotic, Kendra replied.
~ Brandon Mull
He's stubborn, Tux warned in a singsong tone. Stay out of this, Mark spat. And touchy, Tux added.
~ Brandon Mull
I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman, had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time. – DAVID BERKOWITZ, THE SON OF SAM
~ Brenda Novak
Why do I sense hostility on your part, Patrick?" she asks softly, then sips her wine. "Maybe because I'm hostile," I spit out. "Maybe because you sense this.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Me mira fijamente, y la mirada que le devuelvo es el principio de todo, y me imagino el futuro: ¿Por qué me odias?, imagino que dice la voz angustiada de una chica. ¿Qué te he hecho?, imagino que grita otra persona.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Trent senses I'm tense and says, "What do you want me to do? You wanna lude, is that it?" He pulls out a Pez dispenser and pulls Daffy Duck's head back. I don't say anything, just keep staring at the Pez dispenser and then he puts it away and cranes his neck.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
conversation continued. I was the one who felt his frustration and the betrayal. He actually pushed away from
~ Bret Easton Ellis
and writhe in tension, pulling you in two directions, leaving you in di-stress.
~ Brian D. McLaren
Like minds do not always blend. They can be an explosive mixture.
~ Brian Herbert
Dude, your husband is gonna die!
~ Brian K. Vaughan
It was a time of war. Isn't it always.
~ Brian K. Vaughan