Quotes About Conflict

I've given him leave to court you," he said bluntly. "Only if you desire it. If you do not--" " What? " Kathleen burst out, fury pumping through her. Why hadn't Devon mentioned anything about it to her? He must have known that she would object. As a matter of fact, she objected with every bone in her body. Winterborne wasn't right for Helen in any regard. Anyone could see that.

It seemed that Miss Marks and Leo had found in each other the personification of everything they disliked most.

You mean you're against a match with Miss Mercer?" "Well…yes. But I'm also against a match with Beatrix." Silence fell over the room. "This is a trick of some sort," Leo said. "Unfortunately, it's not," Christopher replied.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire." ~ Liberty Jones

I can protect you against everything except myself." - Derek

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

What was clear to Vera was that Griff was a monster for accusing her of such a thing. How dare he? Even after Griff explained how his suspicion came about—from Owen—Vera's ire remained focused on her elder son.

No, she said. She was crying because Irene had the same tracksuit that Paulie Walnuts was wearing.

Dude," Owen said to his brother, "she's fucking insane. She pushed me in. I think she's trying to kill me. I swear to fucking god.

Your husband was fucking my dead wife and you're angry that I went to see Amy?

She slept with him once. Phoebe—well, Irene—told me she slept with her mother's fiancé when she took a course from him at college. Before he was her fiancé. He pursued her mom, just a few years later. She was horrified. She tried to stop it, the wedding. She even tried to talk to the guy, and he pretended like it never happened. She knew that if she told her mother the whole truth, her mother wouldn't believe her.

The only way anyone will ever get to you will be over my dead body." Julia drew in a long breath. "In that case, Cooper," she said faintly into his shoulder, "maybe you better put some clothes on.

Hey guys, stop locking antlers. The smell of testosterone is overriding the farts.

Facing the edge is acknowledging whatever conflict, doubt, frustration, or anxiety that ate at my day and then naming it in a realized prayer, not a pushed-aside hassle. Facing the edge is gleaning the good while placing the not-so-good into God's hands.

We are two messed-up people destined to destroy each other, but I can't walk away. No. Can't isn't the issue. I simply don't want to.

And I don't want to be a part of the 'who's got the bigger sword?' contest you two have going on, either. I don't do cockfights. I just want to do my job and do it well.

He is an addiction, and addictions are never good for you. He's taking me deeper into his world, deeper into his dark desires, but I'm never able to get behind the physical aspect of our relationship. I just lose more of who I am.

her, she's become such a part of my life that no matter how I fight it, or her, she's in my blood—a part of why I exist. Yet so is Rebecca. I don't understand it, and I do not like things that I don't understand.

I'm not sure what he's implying, but I'm pretty sure it's a slap to Chris, and I don't like it. "Show and tell, Mark. It's a good combination.

I approach the double glass doors of the world-renowned Riptide Auction House. Nerves flutter in my belly with the idea that I'm about to do everything my mother warned me never to do—I'm about to place myself in the middle of the world that destroyed our family. But I'm also trying to save the only family I have left.

He's right. He is. But thankfully he's a dickhead who doesn't seem to know my panties are in Chris's pocket.

No I have not," Nelson bites out, irritation in his voice. "She's devastated by all of this." "And so she ran off to Vermont and left you to be devastated alone," Elsa rebuttals. "Such love.

And if you yourself are incompatible with your view of the world?