Quotes About Conflict

If one must have a worst enemy, it is best to choose a former lover, who will know best how to tempt and torment.

Terrible," said Stink. "I had one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, just-like-that-kids'-book yuck days." "What's wrong?" asked Mom, coming into the room. "Stink hit his friend Webster

Eddis looked at her minister, curious. "Your head?" she asked. Attolia explained. "He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son." "So have we all from time to time," Eddis said seriously.

One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish, said Eugenides. You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.

Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head. Is that when he cried? He ducked, Attolia said dryly. Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius said, I had not pictured you for a fishwife. Lo, the transforming power of love.

All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.

Your Majesty, is it true that your cousins held you down in a water cache? Is it also true that they wouldn't let you out until you agreed to repeat insults about your own family? I could send you to ask them. It would be a long trip, your Majesty. I would much rather hear the answer from you. Oh the trip would be much faster than you think. Most of my male cousins are dead. Forgive me, Your Majesty, if I offended.

Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.

I am so sick of people who all seem to be smarter than I am and know more than I do. I wanna go back to the farm. These people make my family look easy to get along with.

Everybody is always willing to throw someone else's country to the dogs.

To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money.

I have seen too many men willing to fight to the death over a spilled cup of wine to think dying for a cause makes that cause just.

He looked up at her. "I can't tell you why. She may be a fiend from hell to make me feel this way, but even if I have to hate myself for the rest of my life, this is what I want." He shook his head, perhaps in self-contempt, and shrugged. "I dream about her at night." Eddis looked down at him and said dryly, "We have heard you screaming.

If only wars could be won on the strength of the cheering when they begin, instead of the blood and the pain and the horror that feed the gods of discord.

Odd that you could be so angry at someone and devoted to him at the same time.

Will you sit down and stop shouting?" she asked. "I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

Does he expect me to rise from my death bed to fight with him? the king asked. I thought you said you weren't dying I've reconsidered.

You are Eddis. Go smack him! Eddis shook her head. Smacking people will not persuade them.

My father thinks that we should forget the old gods. He says that a country with two sets of gods is like a country with two kings. No one knows which to be loyal to.

He would go east and fight the emperor's wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn't a matter of theory in a tiny office in the emperor's palace. It was the work of their lives and the end of many of them.

He said the only thin worse than being wrong in a family argument was being right.

All wars make men monsters, all wars and all men." "And women?" he asked. "Women, too," Attolia confirmed.

Trapped him the gray people    as the great are brought down by the weak    when they are many As the hawk is mobbed by the roller birds    as the great sea eagle is brought down by gulls

Geez," I groan. I sure know how to make enemies—without even trying. People suck.