Tense Quotes - Page 8

• Cat cleared her throat in the tense silence that followed. "Uh, before this goes any further, let’s at least introduce ourselves to your friend. I’m Cat, and this is my husband, Bones. We’re part of Mencheres’ twisted little fang family."

  Jeaniene Frost

  Husband, Cat, Silence

  "Eternal Kiss of Darkness". Book by Jeaniene Frost, July 27, 2010.

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• The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sexy, Body, Bricks

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.824, Penguin

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• Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Writing, White, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Mary Gaitskill from May 15, 2012

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• I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Touching, Trying

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Crumb,” he said. “What?” A slight grin appeared on his face and then he reached out, without the napkin, and before I knew what he was doing, he smoothed his thumb over my bottom lip. Every single muscle in my body locked up and became painfully tense. My eyes widened and the air caught in my throat. The touch was slight, barely anything, but I felt it in several parts of my body. “Got it.” His grin spread.

  J. Lynn

  Eye, Air, Lips

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• ….he grabs my wrists and pins my arms up above my head, locking them in one hand. "Are you mine?" he asks gruffly, as his hand returns between my thighs and briefly enters me. I gasp. Undone. Delirious. "I'm yours." His expression is tense, ravenous, so hot as he scrapes his finger deep into my channel. "Do you want me inside you?" My need clogs my windpipe as pleasure shoots down my legs. "I want you everywhere. All over me. Inside me.

  Katy Evans

  Expression, Hands, Legs

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• As Kylie buried her head on the camp leader's shoulder, she heard Burnett scold, "I thought I told you to wait at the camp." Kylie felt Holiday tense at the reprimand, and then she raised her head. "And I thought you knew I don't follow anyone's orders." "Does anyone listen to me around here?" Burnett asked, his frustration making his tone sound almost comical. "Obviously not," one of the FRU agents said, and chuckled.

  C.C. Hunter

  Holiday, Frustration, Order

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• No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Fall, Clouds, Trying

  Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

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• He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Children, Real, Romantic Love

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.314, Anchor

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• In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)

  Rainbow Rowell

  Rude, Trying, Uptight

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• You are covered in blood," Tybalt said again, stressing the words harder this time. "It makes me tense." There was a thud as the guard hit the floor, and Tybalt returned to my side. "Wow. You must be tense a lot." He sighed. "You have no idea.

  Mira Grant

  Stress, Blood, Ideas

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• Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

  William Carlos Williams

  Moving, Rain, Dark

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.174, New Directions Publishing

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• Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.

  David Hockney

  Simple, Thinking, Ipads

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• A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Natural, New Yorkers, Native

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• I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn't flow, and it's very tense.

  Blanca Li

  Couple, Dancer, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

  Stephen Amell

  Hunting, Archery, Arrows

  "Stephen Amell Talks ARROW, How He Won the Role, the Evolution of the Queen Family Dynamic, Appearances by Other DC Characters, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking about mundane things, but when they start talking about their faith, their demeanor changes. Their tone of voice modifies, their smile becomes tense and they become defensive when questioned about their evidence for belief. It becomes difficult to have a friendly conversation with them.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Talking, Voice

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Wind, Beats, Hard

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• My last defense / Is the present tense.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Live In The Moment, Lasts, Defense

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.81, Library of America

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• For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don't feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say 'When I grow up,' there is always an edge of disbelief - how could they ever be other than what they are?

  Ian Mcewan

  Children, Growing Up, Memories

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• Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

  Jane Kenyon

  Joy, Delight, Red

  Jane Kenyon (2005). “Collected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Drinking, Sleep, Home

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.33, Del Rey

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• A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

  Joseph Addison

  Ruins, Mood, Lending

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• The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Play, Special

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.63, Da Capo Press

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• Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations. "Atheistic humanism" became inhumanism in the hands of the Fascists and Communists and, in its less malign form in today's European Union, a kind of dehumamism in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction. Post-Christian European culture is already post-cultural and, with its surging Muslim populations, will soon be post-European.

  Mark Steyn

  Christian, Atheist, Hands

  "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It". Book by Mark Steyn, 2006.

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