Quotes About Conflict

Okay," I said, "then I'm sorry to inform you that I'm going to have to whack you over the head with this giant banana." "Not if I can whack you first!" said Terry, snatching the banana from my hands and whacking me over the head with it. That's when everything went black.

Lawless men shrank back for fear of him; all the evildoers were confounded; and deliverance prospered by his hand. He embittered many kings, but he made Jacob glad by his deeds, and his memory is blessed forever. 1 Maccabees

What nourishes me also destroys me

It was not spite or retaliation that made Tara abandon Bim — it was the spider fear that lurked at the center of the web-world for Tara. Yet she did abandon Bim, it was true that she did.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

No matter how unjustly you've been treated, if you start fighting fire with fire, you'll get burned.

He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and lt me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?

You don't mean it, he said mournfully. Not at all, she thought. Yes, I do, she said.

Do you think it's easier to be mad at people you trust?" her mom asked very softly. "Why is that?" "Because you trust that they'll love you anyway.

It was hard keeping the love and hate separate in their family.

Mattie felt sympathy and judgement growing together. They didn't cancel each other out.

Vietnam is the Liberals' favorite was because America lost

One time we couldn't even get out the front door, there was so much being thrown, so everybody retreated, including the person who was going to drive the van. I remember the driver crying; it had never happened to him before. The lady who was with him just kept saying, "Oh, this is normal, this is normal." And he kept saying, "These poor girls, these poor girls.

You are going to love some of your characters, because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason. But no matter what, you are probably going to have to let bad things happen to some of the characters you love or you won't have much of a story. Bad things happen to good characters, because our actions have consequences, and we do not all behave perfectly all the time.

If you could change one thing about this world, what would it be?" Mrs. Peabody asked her. "It would be wars," Myriah replied seriously. "I would stop them. I would say to the people who were making the wars, 'Now you stop that. You settle this problem yourselves like grown-ups. Our children want peace.' That's what I'd change.