Quotes About Conflict

She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on every penny." "Pick that up." She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.

The only reason I kissed you was as a distraction from what I really wanted to do, which was strangle you.

What do you mean by that?" Her frustration got the best of her. "You're so used to feeling superior that you've forgotten there are people who might know something you don't." One of his big, competent hands landed on the blade of his hip. "What's your deal anyway? Do you feel like such a failure that you need to attack anybody who's successful?" "No. Maybe. I don't know. Fuck you.

Monday, when he'd barged in on her because she'd somehow managed to hold up everybody's paychecks, she'd been painting her goddamn fingernails! He'd gotten mad then, but he'd barely begun to yell before her lip had started to tremble and she'd said he couldn't talk to her like that because she had PMS.

She shot across the rug, flung the door back open, and yelled into the parking lot. "I hope you choke on your blood vegetables!

A Colin el whisky se le removió en el estómago. Ella se quebraría antes que doblegarse un ápice. Tuvo ganas de sacarla a rastras del salón y quitarle su obstinación a besos.

She took a sip of water and absorbed the dismaying realization that she was attracted to him, even though she wanted to hit him in the head with that beer bottle.

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

No, indeed. I wasn't expecting it at all, so all I could do was stammer that I had no plans of marrying so young and that I was quite happy in my present state of life. He stomped off, but that wasn't the end of it. The next day, he came back in a drunken rage and threatened to drink my heart's blood—charming image, isn't it?—and my mother's too. I have no idea what made him drag her into it.

Nobody is more of a patriot than I am, but I've very little confidence in politicians and even less confidence in wars.

From a twenty-first-century perspective, it is clear that the golden age of freethought, which stretched roughly from 1875 until the beginning of the First World War, divided Americans in much the same fashion, and over many of the same issues, as the culture wars of the past three decades.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist.

If you rock the boat in a fragile family, the concern is that everyone will drown. "Hmmm

You must expect to make enemies." "I never expect to make anything else," he said.

Men like Robin were never content, and men like Robin were all she would ever love, grasping, ambitious reflections of herself... He would begin to plot and scheme behind her back, building up a court faction... To emerge from that final conflict as the victor, it would be necessary to kill him. And she knew she was capable of doing it-- it was as simple as that.

When lovers play for kingdoms desire is not enough.

your needs mean nothing to me. Just as history has proven that my needs mean nothing to you.

Sometimes he felt like two people inside the same skin, and he wasn't always entirely sure which of them was real.

She wanted to bang her fists against him, to shake his secrets out of him, make him tell her something, anything, she could hold onto to help ease the mounting dread inside her.

Funny that when skies were clear, he was the storm. But in the middle of the storm…He was the calm.

I've married a man who is so afraid of living, he'd rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.

But as long as evil persists in the world— and it will until Jesus returns— there will be wars.

We're always at war with good and evil in this world. No one escapes it. It's how we see it, how we recognize it that engages us in battle.

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many