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Quotes About Tension

Jacques let's go of my arm and slowly steps away from me. He can sense a teakettle about to whistle when he sees one.
~ Jen Calonita
I'm going to bed tonight grateful for warmth, an advantage so expected it barely registers. (…) I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Thank you, 4:00 p.m., for being the time of day that thoroughly confuses me: post-homework and pre-dinner. I am already exhausted and fairly irritable. The children are losing their ever-loving minds, and husband is still tucked away in his sane office with all mental faculties intact and won't answer my SOS texts to hurry and come home or their blood is on your hands. Do I make a coffee? Or pour a glass of wine? Yours, Witching-Hour Survivor.
~ Jen Hatmaker
It's so weird to live in this world. What a bizarre tension to care deeply about the refugee crisis in Syria and also about Gilmore Girls. It is so disorienting to fret over aged-out foster kids while saving money for a beach vacation. Is it even okay to have fun when there is so much suffering in our communities and churches and world? What does it say about us when we love things like sports, food, travel, and fashion in a world plagued with hunger and human trafficking?
~ Jen Hatmaker
It's so weird to live in this world. What a bizarre tension to care deeply about the refugee crisis in Syria and also about Gilmore Girls.
~ Jen Hatmaker
My, my, my," he drawled in that gravelly voice that brought her body to full attention. "This Kat has claws." Heat filled her face again, but it wasn't from embarrassment this time. No, some other emotion made her blush, though she had no name for it, or for the shaking that accompanied it. This man was mocking her, but still all she could do was stare into his gray eyes and be sucked in by his presence.
~ Jenna Petersen
You are quite . . . long," she said. "Have you ever measured it?" A glint flashed in Cameron's eyes. "No." "I must fetch a tape measure then." Cameron seized her wrist in an impossibly strong grip. "You are not going anywhere or fetching anything. Not now.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Daniel Mackenzie came behind her, towering over Katie and Beth, the lanky young man the most nervous of the three. "Should you be here?" Daniel hissed. "My dad would tan my hide if he knew I let you come near a game girl, and God knows what Uncle Ian will do.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Sera, I presume?" he said and her bones melted at the sound of his deep voice pronouncing her name. She nodded and held out her hand. He raised a dark eyebrow in her direction and didn't take it. She lowered it again, feeling like a fool for thinking he would touch her, a turned human, and for the first time since she could remember, her gaze didn't want anything to do with him.
~ Jennifer Ashley
he towered over them, muscles stretching the suit he wore. He must have purchased a size too small because he looked as though he was about to tear the material when he moved
~ Jennifer Ashley
Any instructions?" Carpenter said. "Yeah," Shane said. "Shoot anybody who looks at Agnes funny. And anybody else you don't like. I'm getting tired of this shi*." "Somebody needs a hug," Carpenter said. "Humor," Shane said. "Har.
~ Jennifer Crusie
The driver's on me in an instant. She's crying and trembling. She grabs the front of my jacket and shakes me. "You crazy bitch!" she screams. "I could have killed you!" "Sorry," I say "Sorry?" she shouts. "You don't look sorry. You-" "Sorry you missed," I say. She lets go of me then. Takes a step back.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Mfeme cracked his knuckles. "I'll ask you again: where is the talisman?" "And I'll tell you again. I have no idea," Ling said. "Do you think I'm joking? I'll cut you ears off and throw them to the sharks." "Good. I won't have to listen to you anymore.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
They wait. For what? They do not know. But they can feel it coming. Splashed by carriage wheels, they feel it. Outside cafes, looking in, they feel it. At night, in their narrow beds, they feel it. Counting the days snubs and mocks, they feel it. And it fires them.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Hit him." "Don't make her do that," Hunter told Tommy. "She'll break her hand.
~ Jennifer Echols
Adam thinks that you two are in an argument." My body zinged into alert mode. My mind didn't know what Mrs. Vader meant, but my body already did. Even Sean glanced over at her with a cautious look. "He does?" I asked faintly. "A bad one," she confirmed. "How could we be in a bad argument without me even knowing about it?
~ Jennifer Echols
I held the dubious honor of being the one person who could make cool, collected Nick lose his temper.
~ Jennifer Echols
He fumbled with something in his breeches. She had thought the past few minutes the most intense of her life, but they were nothing compared with the alarm and ashamed delight now rushing through her veins - until she realized he was only bringing out his pocket watch.
~ Jennifer Echols
He grinned at me and whispered, "I'm going to kiss you now. It'll be a big one, so don't hit me.
~ Jennifer Echols
Even though i'd admittedly accepted every advance he made on me, picking up my hand and putting it on his thigh seemed mighty forward of him. I didn't take the radical step of removing my hand,but I did open my mouth to act all indignant. He put two fingers to my lips to stop me from talking.He knew me pretty well. His mouth close to my ear,he growled, "You know,you and I are exes." "So?" I asked around his fingers.My skin tingled with excitement,or possibly eucalyptus poisoning.
~ Jennifer Echols
You know what I think?" Chloe asked. She was going to tell me whether I wanted to know or not. "I think you've both built up enormous amounts of sexual tension since your session in the sauna was cut short last night,and you won't get along until you let it out. You need to make out with him. Take control.
~ Jennifer Echols
I was vaguely aware that we'd been archenemies a few minutes before, and now he had me on my back on the sand.
~ Jennifer Echols
Nick was giving me the same look. And this time,instead of being taken aback or feeling squicky about it,my heart raced and my face grew hot. My body's response to the call of Nick.
~ Jennifer Echols
He ran his hands through his hair and held on to the back of his neck both biceps bulging. Dang him for looking so hot when I wanted to run away
~ Jennifer Echols