Quotes About Conflict

Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back hard in his face...

For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He could remember exactly what it felt like to have his arm around her waist as they had meandered towards Hazlitt's Hotel. She was tall enough to hold easily. He had never fancied very small women. Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he known how much Strike had liked it.

Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.

And don't ," bellowed Robin from behind him, "buy me any more fucking flowers !" "No danger of that!" yelled Strike over his shoulder, as he strode away into the darkness.

A pause. Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.

In a family there is always something or other going awry… Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

I've upset you, haven't I?" said Morris. "No, you haven't upset me," said Robin. After all, "upset" wasn't quite the same as "enrage.

The argument had been in full swing when Matthew's father telephoned with the news that a funny turn Matthew's mother had suffered the previous week had been diagnosed as a mini-stroke. After this, she and Matthew felt that squabbling about Strike was in bad taste, so they went to bed in an unsatisfactory state of theoretical reconciliation, both, Robin knew, still seething. It was

Are we tryina stop this wedding, Bunsen?" "' Course not," said Strike, pulling out another cigarette. "I was invited. I'm a friend. A guest." "You sacked 'er," said Shanker. "Which ain't a mark of friendship where I come from." Strike refrained from pointing out that Shanker knew hardly anyone who had ever had a job.

Jesus fucking Christ," said Strike, "is he mentally ill? Of course he is," he answered himself immediately. "Of course he's mentally ill. He wants to cut his fucking leg off. Jesus fucking Christ.

When Ed found out I was seein' Kea again, everyfing turned to shit between us. We couldn' talk wivvout tellin' each other 'ow much of a fuckin' bastard we fort the ovver one was…

She hadn't needed her own lawyer to point out that Matthew appeared to be trying to force her to spend money she didn't have on legal wrangling, to run down the clock and her resources until she walked away with as close to nothing as he could manage.

Strike had long since come to believe that she engineered situations out of an apparently insatiable need for conflict.

In a family there is always something or other going awry…

She and I aren't each other's favorite people.

A rock through a window never comes with a kiss. Blue Öyster Cult, "Madness to the Method

Lucy deploraba su actitud y los motivos que él daba. Ella siempre se ofendía cuando él hablaba de unos objetivos en la vida diferentes a los suyos, como si estuviesen atacando sus decisiones y opiniones.

She's like that, always shifting the goalposts. What was right one minute was wrong the next. You had to walk on eggshells, you really did.

You can bloody hate someone and still wish they gave a shit about you and hate yourself for wishing it

She'd spent nearly half her life with Matthew, and not until a hard, bright diamond ear stud had appeared in their bed had she realized that he was living a life apart, and was not, and perhaps never had been, the man she thought she knew.

So Ledwell doesn't like our game because 'the game's really more of a metaphor'. We literally based it on your own rules, u pretentious cow.

Even that day, with his handprint across her face, she didn't want to tell me, because there was a bit of her that didn't want to hurt him. I saw it all the bloody time with my domestic abuse survivors. Women still protecting them. Still worrying about them! Love dies hard in some women.

Attempting to make up with Charlotte before every last ounce of her fury had been spent had been like trying to rebuild a house during an earthquake.

Strike se dio cuenta de que estaba asistiendo a una crisis unilateral