Quotes About Tension

Well, you really made a mess of things,' he says. 'I'm not even done,' I tell him.

I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.

So this is how a war starts.... Not with two armies facing off, waiting for the signal to charge.... It begins much more quietly. In a room, on a field, in a remote tunnel when someone who has power decides the time has come.

He shoved her away, dropping the ax, and tore something from the back of his neck. His hand shot into the air, fingers gripped tightly around the bright pink snake.

you can feel something in the air, the rolling boil of a pot about to run over. Not

But at this point, with only minor victories for the rebels, a cease-fire could only result in a return to our previous status. Or worse.

Yeah, we know. Tick, tock. Nuts is in shock,

You get the feeling that the knot-tying class is not the Hunger Games hot spot.

Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat. The

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt … and I could shatter into strange, razor-sharp shards.

Tick, tock," I hear behind me. I turn and see Wiress has crawled over. Her eyes are focused on the jungle.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it," I say. This has the desired effect. After a moment of disbelief, all the disapproval in the room hits me like a ton of bricks.

you did, I think. With a few inches of my flesh. While we wait for the elevators, Johanna unzips the

I wasn't going to tell you until after the Hunger Games . . ." She fell silent. "But now you have to," he said. "Or, I'll imagine the worst things possible. Please, just tell me.

Suddenly, I think I might start screaming at him — I'm not even sure about what

Each hour begins a new horror, a new Gamemaker weapon, and ends the previous.

Trust me. Killing things is much easier than this," I said. "Although for all I know, I am killing you." "Can you speed it up a little?" he asks. "No. Shut up and eat your pears," I say.

I was going to ask your thoughts on the war, but if you're too upset . .

Trying to shout her name above the roar. I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I think she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

Yes, it's great to have allies as long as you can ignore the thought that you'll have to kill them.

my mother snatched the rope necklaces away and was yelling at my father.

Someone was absolutely going to get punched in the head today.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Tom entered Juliet's House as furtively as a spy, although most spies would have known not to glance over their shoulders every two seconds to see if they were being followed, or to jump when the woman selling tickets asked for money, or to dart past her as if they were making a run for the border.