Quotes About Conflict

Drama dies without an audience

My Body is a wide house A commune Of bickering women, hearing their own breathing denying each other. (House of Changes)

The American infantry, it is said, has seized control of cities as close as Eisenach and Ehrfurt, ransacking and burning the houses, raping the women, worse than the Russians.

Michael," I said between kisses, "if I were to become like you, do you think . . . that is, we seem to have this . . . thing." We seem to have this thing? Gods, what was wrong with me?

You didn't want Mather to have the bowls, and you didn't want him to have me." He stared a moment. Then he leaned to her, suddenly fierce. "When I saw you, I knew I had to take you away from him. He had no idea what you were worth, just like he can't price the damn bowls. He's a philistine.

Perhaps I can't save them from themselves," Beth answered. "But I will try to save them from you." Fellows

You were going to refuse him?" "Yes." "Why?" I thought of you and I couldn't.

Now I know why Englishmen don't let their ladies fight alongside them. The women would take over in a heartbeat." Mary squeezed his arm in the darkness. "Don't be silly." "'Tis true, and the English bastards know it. That's why they write laws t' keep their women tamed. And why I keep having to rescue ye." "You mean abducting me." Mal heaved a mock sigh. "Well, we're never going to see eye to eye on that.

As soon as she's able to move, she is out of here. I mean it. I want her gone. No one in this world is going to come between us.

Antoine was one hundred and ten percent certain that this was a very bad idea. Very very bad. Unfortunately, the raging hard-on in his boxers was telling him that he was in the mood for something very very bad

This was too absurd, and at the same time dismayingly tempting.

It's fascinating, how they managed to wound each other so easily and accidentally.

All people—white and colored, slave and free, Union and Confederate—shared a common humanity belied by their outward differences. In a time of discord, in a land torn by war, no truth was more important to remember than that.

Mr Lincoln suggested that the Lord sent us this terrible war as punishment for the offense of slavery and that the war may be a mighty scourge to rid US of it

There is only one kind of man who carries two shotguns into church. That's a man who doesn't turn the other cheek.

Every couple fights. The question really isn't if we fought as much as how we fought.

Every war is different, yet each battle is the same. The enemy is only a distraction. The thing you are fighting against, always, is yourself.

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

Have you ever tried to stop her from doing something she wants to do?' Desiderio asked. Mahdi sighed. 'Yeah, actually, I have,' he said. 'No further explanation needed.

Compared to me, everyone has normal relationships.' Sera laughed. 'Right. Especially me. I'm the queen of normal relationships. The merman I love is about to marry someone else. We have to pretend to hate each other. And his future wife is trying to kill me. Totally normal.

Cada guerra es distinta, aunque todas las batallas son iguales. El enemigo no es más que una distracción. Porque siempre, siempre, luchas contra ti

A veces es más fácil decir que odias lo que no tienes que reconocer cuánto lo quieres.

She believes the king of the Hinterlands is going to attack her. Her fear of this is so great, she talks of nothing else. I promised to defend the Greenlands with the full might of Skandinay's army—if she promised that I would inherit her crown. But now I have a problem—you're not dead after all. How can I be heir to the Greenlands's throne if you're still alive?

There are reasons," she said. "If you knew… if I could tell you…" Her hands, resting on top of the table, knotted into fists. Her long blond hair, pale as moonlight, swirled around her shoulders. Her ice-blue eyes sought Serafina's. In them, Serafina could see a yearning to talk, to share what was troubling her.