Quotes About Tension

Shrake asked. "I'm sweating like a blind lesbian in a sushi bar.

nodded at Cole. "Long time ago," Marlys said. "Did he come right straight to Iowa?" Likely opened his mouth to reply, as Cole pulled the gun and in a single movement, shot

Hey, fuck you," Lucas said. "What!" Pole started to move at Lucas, but saw something in Lucas's eyes that made him take a step back. Bell Wood got between them and Lucas growled, "Stay away from me, asshole.

Good," Lucas said. "And hey—relax. Gonna be all right." "No, it won't," she said. "I can almost guarantee that whatever it is, it won't be all right.

Kidd could feel an incipient hernia when he even thought about that night. . . .

Give me the goddamn names, Grace," Lucas said. "C'mon. Please. Talk to me. Save yourself." "Fuck you." — FORD CAME BACK, looked at Lucas, asked, "Get a name?" "Not unless it's 'Fuck you,'" Lucas said.

THE BACK DOOR, what was left of it, scraped open again, and they could hear boot steps on the stoop, and Lucas said, "This is it, Grace. Who's going after Bowden? Give me something that'll give you a break." She shook her head. "Fuck you.

Pilate screamed and pulled away from her and in that sliver of opportunity, Lucas shot him through the bridge of his nose. Then the screaming really got started.

HADEN WAS WEARING SWEATPANTS and a T-shirt, with flip-flops, his hair wet from a shower, and Virgil said, "I don't want to hear about it. I'm so horny the light socket ain't safe.

You got me all choked up, Johnson," Virgil said. "I'll make a note about it, you know, needing to kill somebody.

Dirk Moeller didn't know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out.

Well, aren't you a massive prick," I said, quietly, under the roar of the helicopter. "What?" Sanders asked. "I said, 'That's a nifty trick.

I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant." "Ah, repression," Keyes said. "Excellent. Try to avoid taking a potshot at me when you finally blow, please." "I can't promise anything, sir," Alan said.

You seem tense," Kahurangi said to them. "Of course I'm tense," Niamh snapped back. "We have a stupid plan." "You're just saying this because it's my plan." "I'm not just saying it because it's your plan, and also, yes.

There is a moment of surface tension when a knife blade presents its demand and the flesh honors it. An instant of pressure before the puncture, the rip before the slide, a small eternity easy to miss but impossible to ignore if you've felt it before. I lived in that moment a great while for the small sliver of time it was there.

Firebomb the place," Laertes said, from the room he and Brent shared, where he was playing a video game. "No one's firebombing anything," Brent yelled back to Laertes. "Yet," Laertes replied. "You can't firebomb your way out of every problem," Brent said. "You can't," Laertes called back.

It's war, you jackasses," Keyes snapped. "I'm sorry it's not terribly convenient or comfortable for you.

The Jenna Situation, as you recalled it now, had been fraught with fraughtiness.

It's not that Seaborg disliked Harvey, but after a couple of combat drops with the 2nd Platoon one got the sense that if you didn't like things to explode unnecessarily around you, you would want to stay well clear of Daniel Harvey.

Now What? Kerensky said. We wait, Dahl said. For how long? Kerensky said, As long as dramatically appropriate, Dahl said.

Fear enters the room and sits down in a chair and with a polite smile asks to open negotiations.

Hello, Anon-a-Writer! In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first?

I'm going to shoot him twice now. We still need to bring him in alive, I said. I didn't say I was going to kill him, Powell replied. Just that I was going to shoot him twice.

Alan hasn't lost it," I said. "And he's been in as long as I have." "That's true," Keyes said. "What's your answer to that, Rosenthal?" "I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant.