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Quotes About Conflict

They wanted it because they've got some sort of darkness in them. And maybe because they like pain. Because pain turns them on. Well, maybe it turns me on, too," she said quietly. "In fact, I know it does, because loving you hurts. And yet, I still come back for more.
~ Larissa Ione
Have you had a chance to talk with your colleagues? Talk? We don't talk. They dictate. I tell them to fuck off.
~ Larissa Ione
I hate you." "I know," he whispered. "Kiss me." He didn't hesitate.
~ Larissa Ione
You son of a bitch!' 'What? he said, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. 'You were mad.' 'I wasn't talking about the kiss.' He grinned. 'Does that mean I can do it again?
~ Larissa Ione
Give up the human, and I'll call them off," Reseph called out. "Fuck you." "Incest, brother?" He shrugged. "Well, hell, I've tried everything else since my Seal broke…
~ Larissa Ione
Yep, ouch. He and apologies didn't get along.
~ Larissa Ione
He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture, and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant battle between what he was and what he wanted to be.
~ Larissa Ione
She's my sister. I'll handle this." "She's my wife ," Arik shot back. "Husband trumps the brother card. So get the fuck out and don't come back until you have your temper under control.
~ Larissa Ione
War is hell." —William Tecumseh Sherman "Sherman was totally my bitch." —War
~ Larissa Ione
Revenant shrugged in his black leather duster… He plopped down in the overstuffed chair by the fire. "That's my seat," Azagoth said. "Move." "Whatever, Sheldon.
~ Larissa Ione
I nearly put you in the grave, you stupid human!
~ Larissa Ione
Well, historically, good can't fight for shit. Really, they need me. - Wraith
~ Larissa Ione
One of the reasons wars go on is because of the price both sides have paid in blood. After a while, even if the original reason no longer matters, you keep on fighting because you don't want all those deaths to be in vain.
~ Larry Bond
Weapons by themselves don't provoke
~ Larry Bond
Storytelling is all about conflict. Some would tell you it's all about character, but that's not accurate. Because character depends on conflict to illuminate itself. Every story has conflict, or it's not a story at all. Conflict is what stands in the way of what the hero needs or wants in the story.
~ Larry Brooks
The mission of Part 1 is to set up the plot by creating stakes, backstory, and character empathy, while perhaps foreshadowing the forthcoming conflict.
~ Larry Brooks
She don't like to be around anybody drinkin, don't even like to smell it. I drink and I like to drink. That's it.
~ Larry Brown
We ain't having no more futile wars. Till we have one in the Middle East.
~ Larry Brown
Jinnah to Lord Mountabatten in one of his many meetings before partition: "India has never been a true nation. It only looks that way on the map. The cows I want to eat, the Hindus stops me from killing. Every time a Hindu shakes hands with me he has to wash his hands. The only thing the Muslim has in common with Hindu is his slavery to the British.
~ Larry Collins
Ben-Gurion was talking about planning a war against five Arab armies and we were still being arrested by the British for carrying a pistol down the street.
~ Larry Collins
The General Assembly of the United Nations," the broadcaster read, "by a vote of thirty-three in favor, thirteen against and ten abstentions, has voted to partition Palestine.
~ Larry Collins
Over two thousand people died in that vicious intramural bloodletting. While the Jews of Palestine were developing the young leaders and the social institutions that would be their greatest resource, Haj Amin Husseini methodically deprived the Arabs of theirs. Throttling progress and any drift to rational thought with his angry fanaticism, cowing with the guns of his ignorant villagers the educated elite, he reduced a generation of Arab leadership to fear and silence.
~ Larry Collins
In 1880, after the assassination of Alexander II, the mobs, aided by the Czar's soldiers, burned and butchered their way through one Jewish community after another, leaving a new word in their wake: pogrom.
~ Larry Collins
Granamyr doesn't fight humans, Granamyr wins.
~ Larry DiTillio