Quotes About Tension

Things were definitely going badly. The night looked like ending in disaster. In one corner of the room Maria Blond had started squabbling with Léa de Horn, whom she accused of sleeping with men who weren't really rich.

Antagonism breeds extremism.

Words failed him again; he began to stammer in his unsuccessful attempt to express the first vague stirrings of the future he could feel within himself. While he finished feverishly brushing in the black velvet jacket, there was a long silence. (37)

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

And you, you worthless—' he broke out as I entered, turning to his daughter-in-law, and employing an epithet as harmless as duck, or sheep, but generally represented by a dash—. 

Mrs. Heathcliff is my daughter-in-law,' said Heathcliff, corroborating my surmise.  He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction: a look of hatred;

I have to remind myself to breathe - almost to remind my heart to beat! And it is like bending back a stiff spring ... it is by compulsion, ..

The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

dangerous chemistry

Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.

desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move

I don't have to answer to you. For anything." Willy's eyes narrowed. "Okay," Eddi said. "I should be patient. But all three of us just spent the last—however long it was—with people trying to kill us. It frays your temper. So if you want to discuss the night's events, do it. But if you'd rather play B-movie gestapo officer, you can play somewhere else.

She wants to slap everyone today, to pick up the whole sweat-slick City and punch its lights out.

So this was liberty. Mary was beginning to recognise the taste of it in her mouth: terror salting the sweetness.

I am not exuding anything, said Holly through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins.

I don't know why it is, Captain Short, but whenever you start agreeing with me, I get decidedly nervous.

Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?

It felt like my teeth were sweating. Eoin Colfer's The Legend of Spud Murphy

I know what the Book says," snapped Root. "I just wish you weren't so gung ho about it. If I didn't know you better, I'd say there was some human blood in you." "There's no call for that," pouted Cudgeon. "I'm only doing my job." "Point taken," conceded the commander. "I'm sorry." You didn't often hear Root apologizing, but then it had been a deeply offensive insult.

In dieser Nacht würde Geschichte geschrieben. Und es war nicht die erhebende Art von Geschichte wie bei der Entdeckung der Radioaktivität oder dem ersten Mann auf dem Mond, sondern die finstere Art à la spanische Inquisition oder Absturz der Hindenburg. Finster für Menschen und Unterirdische. Finster für alle.

Holly, I wish you wouldn't appear like that. I'm a bodyguard. I get jumpy.

Maybe I'm just gonna kill you, says Mike, peeved at being predictable. You ever think of that? No, Mike. Because if you wanted me dead, then four or five of your guys would be in the hospital and I'd have a flesh wound. Maybe.

Ik weet niet hoe het komt, kapitein Short, maar telkens wanneer je het met me eens dreigt te zijn, word ik bijzonder nerveus. - Root