Quotes About Conflict

This was something you had to work through on you own, Jason said. Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing. Oh, right, I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I really did. And if I hadn't? Now Jason brandished something he'd been holding behind his back. It was a golf club. I figured Big Bertha here would drive them away, he said.

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancée, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago. Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War.

I hate confrontations. It's so much easier to walk away than it is to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.

What was I thinking, anyway? It would never work out between the two of us. I mean, I'm a mediator. His dad's a vampire. His uncle's a killer. What if we got married? Think how our kids would turn out...

I hope you're not planning on kicking me," he said, not even bothering to look up from his book, "as hard as you did those doors." "I will," I said, "if the next words out of your mouth are Pierce, you just need to relax.

I'll tell you what kind of girl I'm not, I said crankily. I am not the kind of girl who's looking to share her room with a member of the opposite sex. Understand me? So either you move out, or I force you out. It's entirely up to you. I'll give you some time to think about it. But when I get back here, Jesse, I want you gone.

But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.

Sometime, the only way you can make someone listen is with your fist. This is not a technique espoused, I know by the diagnostic manuals on most therapists' shelves. Then again nobody ever said I was a therapist.

Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.

I do not expect Henrique Mauricio to conform to my standards of behavior, Alaric said. I expect him not to do things that make me want to pound his face into a bloody pulp. Sadly, every time I meet him he fails to live up to this expectation.

Why are boys so difficult? I mean, really. When they aren't drinking directly out of the carton or leaving the toilet seat up, they are getting all offended because you won't go out with them and threatening to rat you out to your supervisor. Hasn't it occurred to any of them that this is not the way to our hearts? And the problem is, they are just going to keep on doing it, as long as stupid girls like Kelly Prescott keep agreeing to go out with them anyway, in spite of their defects.

But maybe kissing was enough. Maybe kissing was the only thing that mattered, anyway. Maybe kissing could overcome the whole vampire/basketball thing.

I wish I didn't have to do anything with her. Like, for REAL!" (Page 2)

She was the worst person ever. She seriously has got some issues, that Lana Weinbeigher!" (Page 4)

To: Mel Fuller From: Nadine Wilcock Subject: Go take a Midol…

If there is one person right now that I hate the most, it would be my dad. Yup, and I mean it!" (Page 27)

You, Wells, are what we in the force like to call a shitkicker. If there's any shit around, I always seem to find you in the middle, kicking it.

HATE LUISA FERRARI.

I guess we will," I said, wondering how it had gotten to this: my cousin and me, fighting over who was the more powerful witch. I mean, talk about stupid. I

Every war has turning points and every person too.

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

There is only one rule about violence. Do whatever you must do to make it stop.