Quotes About Conflict

Violence is as American as cherry pie.   —RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN

Why did people always get tangled up with other people? Why put ourselves through this shit?

I'm tired of every time I have a moment with you, you put murder between us." "There is murder between us." "No. If anything, that's what brought us here. Is that the problem? You can't shed Lieutenant Dallas long enough to feel?" "That's who I am." "Then that's who I want.

I don't give a rat's warty ass she's dead. It only means she's a dead cunt." "That's a strong opinion." "And the only kind worth having. I threatened to shove a stick up her twat and light it on fire just yesterday. Maybe the day before. I lose track as there was rarely a day that went by she didn't make me want to strangle her with my bare hands after I'd beaten her in the face with a rusty shovel.

Religion was a riddle to her. Believe this, and only this, because we say so. If you don't you're buying a one-way ticket to everlasting Hell. Organized religion baffled her, made her vaguely uncomfortable. Each had followers who were so sure they were right, that their way was the only way. And throughout history they'd fought wars and shed oceans of blood to prove it.

Divorced him—hired a fucking shark lawyer—excuse the language." "No problem. Cops hear words like lawyer all the time." Fanny

You have power over a powerful man. His love for you gives you the power, though I suspect there are times the two of you fight like cats.

Weren't they a pair? Roarke thought, two veteran cops who've waded through blood and madness. But put a bit of sex on the table between them, and they're as fidgety as virgins at an orgy.

confrontation while lounging in bed.

And personally, I don't get murder. Why kill people when you can just ignore them?

Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

angled, straddled

Whitney's giving a push on Russo. We'll

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

uncomfortable. Each had followers who were so sure they were right, that their way was the only way. And throughout history they'd fought wars and shed oceans of blood to prove it.

There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

She shrugged. "I could write a book of sayings that should actually be sayings if people didn't keep killing each other.

Some men can love with their heart, but their body wants more, and their mind allows this by believing it doesn't matter. Or count. Or hurts no one. The mind lies.

I don't care for the fact that you have a point. ~ Roarke

That was the woman he loved, no matter how much she could--and did--infuriate him.

The heart and the brain don't always mesh, do they? I know your heart, darling Eve, but your brain still has some mysterious corners.

It's rare in war for either side to consider the innocent." Why

It's a conflict of interest and we both know it. I'm putting your ass on the line with this." "Sorry to disagree, sir, but I'm in charge of my own ass. It's only on the line if I put it there." "So noted and appreciated.

You're a dead man, Roarke. You don't know it, but you've already stopped breathing. The walking dead. And when you finally realize you're dead, and drop to the ground and you're laying there, I'm going to step over your cold, lifeless body, open the doors of that department store you call a closet, and I torch it. Eve Dallas