Quotes About Conflict

Don't ever, he said, be afraid of me. But I was. He'd driven a silver nail through my heart.

Goddess," he said, "I would strongly advise you to continue this journey as you were—in your carriage." "Vazkor," I said, "I would strongly advise you not to advise me.

In the midst of passion, some previous passion still held some sway, it seemed.

Even the rich must feed the demons.

Saffiro whitened and the sword began to lift. Leopardo, aware he could kill this one in two heartbeats, without fire, not wanting him, yawned.

Loitering stupidly among the orange trees, Romulan stood and hated. Hated the black hair of his father, like his own, the patrician face, very handsome in its way, but unlike, hated the stern, shy, and brutal honorableness, the imposition of will, the lack of-what? Something so simple as the evidence of affection? Valentius was the Tower. In his presence, Romulan shrank, became nine years of age.

Does the military even have a position between going all out and casualty? Dr. Sloan wondered-her thoughts apparently having been following the same paths. Yes, ma'am. We in the Corps refer to that position as being in the Navy.

I have learned that one should say Peace! to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.

Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glass churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words behind one another's backs. He paused. Welcome to my house. No secrets allowed. Here we all do our killing with guns and axes and knives. It's more bloody than what most people are accustomed to, yes, but it's far less brutal.

Because she, too, was the Dark One, wasn't she? They all were, as much as they were all Forest Dwellers, without Elyon's cleansing waters. Yet they were chosen. It was up to them to follow either the one who had made them dark, or the one who had chosen each of them. Teeleh or Elyon.

Cords of darkness were wrapped around her arms, chest and neck. They didn't retreat as Stephen's had.

Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.

Rose couldn't stomach another day in the house with a woman who still treasured the monster she'd married. So she left with Sylous.

His hand flashed, slapping her cheek with an open palm before she saw it moving. The force of his blow snapped her head sideways. Tears sprang to her eyes.

This was what Alvin Finch had learned: you can break their bones, but it is far better to break their heart. Suffice it to say that he had broken the father's heart.

The rag rug That had heaped out onto your lap Slid to the floor. There it lay, coiled Between us. However it came, And wherever it found its tongue, its fang, its meaning, It survived our Eden.

They only want to weep As after the huge wars Senseless huge wars Huge senseless weeping.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears...

He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd. -Anthony's thoughts

Richard saw red. "Do not speak to her in that tone of voice." "How do mean, like she's family?

Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.

I don't know why you've been such a grouchy old bastard lately, but it's going to stop." [Linda] threw open the refrigerator and pulled out an insulated lunchbox. "Here. I made you a lunch. Take your pretty new gun and go shoot something.