Quotes About Tension

and you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score.

Her face was calm, but inside she was tense.

I was struck dumb by the sight of this beloved face working itself up into what looked like hatred.

Commenting on the crew's Christmas Eve reading from Genesis, he looked down at the justices of the Supreme Court—a court barely seven years removed from having ruled prayer in the classroom unconstitutional—and said, "But now that I see the gentlemen in the front row, I'm not sure we should have read from the Bible at all.

bundle of nerves, swaddled in a blanket of panic.

I'm a bundle of nerves, swaddled in a blanket of panic.

I figured we'd be too busy running for our lives than for him to make a move anyway. (Dana)

Dang it, Chance. You been here one day and you killed a man and split another one's skull open. I got enough to do without you adding more work. Chance kept his tone level. He drew on me. Why were you over in the Badlands in the first place? You know why. Bowie glared, then lowered his voice. Think you can get through a day without killing someone? Don't know. It's early yet.

You saved our lives, back there. He leaned his mouth a few inches from hers. You want to show me your gratitude? Ellie moved closer and rested her hands on the great expanse of Chance's broad chest. His mouth twitched in what might have been an unpracticed smile that shot straight through her like a ray of sunlight. She gave him the tight smile she saved for difficult guests, then whispered to him. Not if you were the last man in Texas.

Mary had disrupted nearly every relationship in her life. Would she now come between her sisters, setting one against another, their long time amity forgotten?

I fear that until this rebellion is put down, she'll find herself caught in the middle, claimed by neither side, mistrusted by both.

She glared at him. "Who the fuck do you think you are?" "I think I'm the fuck you want," Nick said, and when she swung on him, he ducked under her arm and caught her to him, taking her mouth with his so completely that she stopped swinging to enjoy the heat and shudder he kissed into her, so relieved to finally have his arms around her.

Now," Lynne said, turning back to the table with her lizard smile. "I apologize for interrupting you, Minerva. What were you saying?" She looked at Min as if to say, You have a chance to back down; take it. Min smiled back at her. Bite me, lady.

You're not going to handcuff me, are you?" "Only if you want me to." "Your caveman tactics are really getting on my nerves." "I hate that for you.

Instead she came face-to-face, well to be technically accurate, face-to-wall-of-hard-muscular-chest with the big, badass bounty hunter himself who'd been starring front and center in her secret fantasies. Cade Stone.

Everyone still sees the smiling Laura Palmer. The girl with perfect grades and perfect hair and perfect little fingers that want to sometimes, late at night, go into the mirror to strangle the daydreaming troublemaker I see in the reflection!

What do you think this is, a Matthew Reilly novel?" "Whether

Her moods were totally unpredictable, and Ben was never sure how he would find her upon his return at the end of the day. At times he felt that he should enter their home by putting his hat on a stick and poking it into the doorway to see if it would be embraced, ignored, or shot at.

There was a heated spell being woven in the room, shrinking the world down to just the two of them.

Stretched to the breaking point by all that now stood between them, but at the same time refusing to break.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.