Quotes About Tension

You'll marry me," he said in a rough voice. If they hadn't just kissed as if the world ended, she'd think he was angry. She tipped her chin up and spoke defiantly. "Yes." Charlotte waited for him to say he was pleased, but he still looked as if he poised on the edge of a cliff. A cliff with hungry crocodiles snapping below. "Soon?" he growled. "Tomorrow if I could." "Good." He

Today, Polish-Ukrainian relations are rather muted – surprisingly so given their long and scratchy common history.

could spill over to hysteria as the hours and minutes ticked towards the edition deadline. The news editors had phones glued to their ears,

It's like something out of the Krays.

I know. Brains and dicks. Maybe they're too far apart to function together.

Nothing like drugs to take the edge off drug problems.

expression an unsettling blend of fear and fury. Prothvar came in

Nighthawks I wanted to run away with you tonight but you are a difficult woman the rules of you - Past and future circle round us now we know more now less in the institute of shadows. On a street black as widows with nothing to confess our distances found us the rules of you - so difficult a woman I wanted to run away with you tonight.

Ascent of the rapist up the stairs seems as slow as lava. She listens to the black space where his consciousness is, moving towards her.

I cannot close my eyes, fear stands over me instead of sleep.

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.

How do you define difficult?" "By your presence." She grinned fully, delighted to feel the tension dissipate. "Now you are just flattering me for no reason." He grunted. "On the contrary," she said, as if his grunt had been a worded response. "It was most flattering." He stared at her. "What? Did you think I wouldn't figure out how to interpret your grunts?

Will you oblige me then?' His voice was low and smooth, nearly whispered ... Everything froze for a moment. Even the flickering lamps seemed to pause, flames surging upward and waiting ... 'No.

She smiled at him. Why was she always smiling at him? It made him tense.

Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.

Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house. It's as though I could fly, almost, and I get very tense before I've told the truth — hard. Then I sit down at the desk and get going with it.

Pero, ¿podía haber algo que infundiera más miedo que otra noches de espera, otro día de tensión, el no-suceder, el no-actuar?¿Acaso no se había alcanzado un punto culminante, por encima del cual solo estaba el vacío?

Pero, ¿podía haber algo que infundiera más miedo que otra noche de espera, otro día de tensión, el no-suceder, el no-actuar? ¿Acaso no se había alcanzado un punto culminante, por encima del cual solo estaba el vacío?

Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché.

Grounding is not dull and lifeless, but dynamic and vibrant. Generally it is our tension that makes us lethargic, and tension results from alienation between various parts of ourselves. As these parts are simplified and integrated, we experience increased vitality.

Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.

I think I'm prone to panic.