Quotes About Tension

You're whiplash, she whispered.

Stephen was holding his glass of tea so tightly it squeezed out the bottom of his grip like toothpaste and landed on the table.

Lord help us all. They'll dub this one the shit war, Betsy said.

There are times when I'd like to thrash the man till he begged for mercy!

Gutterman's face flushed beet-red. Oh, is that so? he snarled. We'll see how impressed you are when we start questioning you. Oh, please don't question us, Ned cried mockingly.

The chandelier suddenly started to sway

You know your all fucks! why am i so dichable? now how am i supposed to kill you with out upseting that poor nice women!? God damnit alice i liked you why did you have to be such a bitch

But now no music was in her mind. That was a funny thing. It was like she was shut out from the inside room. Sometimes a quick little tune would come and go - but she never went into the inside room with music like she used to do. It was like she was too tense. Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time . . . She wanted to stay in the inside room but she didn't know how. It was like the inside room was locked somewhere away from her. A very hard thing to understand.

But the music did not come again. The tune was left broken, unfinished. And the drawn tightness she could no longer stand. She felt she must do something wild and sudden that never had been done before. She hit herself on the head with her fist, but that did not help any at all. And she began to talk aloud, although at first she paid no attention to her own words and did not know in advance what she would say.

But now no music was in her mind. That was a funny thing. It was like she was shut out from the inside room. Sometimes a quick little tune would come and go - but she never went into the inside room with music like she used to do. It was like she was too tense. Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time . . . She wanted to stay on the inside room but she didn't know how. It was like the inside room was locked somewhere away from her. A very hard thing to understand.

Yet at the same time you almost might use the word loose instead of caught. Although they are two opposite words.

He had lived as a handful of taffy between his mother and his father all his life, had been pulled in so many directions, stretched here and there, that all he could do was plaster a mighty smile on his face.

She wanted to do such violent things to him, it scared her.

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

Silence can be as threatening as words.

Unlike humans, who have the power (or curse) of denial to keep them in an abusive situation, animals will always move toward balance. Automatically, the brain says, "Hey, finally I get a rest." They are relieved to be out of that state of constant tension.

It was shaping up to be one of a handful of days in my life that filled me with the kind of anticipation and excitement that makes your anus tingle ever so slightly.

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

How is Eric?' 'Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.' 'Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.' 'Oh. Well ... great.' She hung up.

Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.

Sabía que algo no iba bien en Sookielandia.

A peremptory knock on the front door made me jump.

Life around vampires was just one continuous emergency, I decided.

I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.