fighting

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
309e858	First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.	conflict fighting inspirational misattributed-to-gandhi trial	Nicholas Klein
0ff945a	I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?	fighting funny humour husband inspirational love lover relationships romance spiritual sweet wife	Stephanie Lennox
cb437dd	"Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as far as she could into the water. Octavian made a squeaking sound. "What was that for? I didn't say it! That could've been evidence. Or spoils of war!" Annabeth tried for a dumb-blonde smile, like: Nobody who knew her would have been fooled. But Octavian seemed to buy it. He huffed in exasperation. "You other two..." He pointed his blade a Hazel and Piper. "Put your weapons on the dock. No funny bus--" All around the Romans, Charleston Harbor erupted like a Las Vegas fountain putting on a show. When the wall of seawater subsided, the three Romans were in the bay, spluttering and frantically trying to stay afloat in their armor. Percy stood on the dock, holding Annabeth's dagger. "You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced."	fighting octavian percy-jackson seawater smile	rick riordan
4d5cc47	Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?	fighting peace soldiers war	Bill Watterson
bb8eaf2	You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.	daine fighting misogyny owned	Tamora Pierce
0460ee5	What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises--no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.	fighting gurney-halleck practice preparation training warrior-training	Frank Herbert
9f5f37d	He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.	ancient ancient-china ancient-chinese body chinese conquers fighting inspirational philosophical philosophy proverb self-improvement self-realization training warrior	Confucius
d34e7a2	"Nosoi?" Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end." "You haven't killed me yet," I noted. "Don't tempt me."	fighting greek-mythology humor percy-jackson	Rick Riordan
481b584	And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encountered the thing that was then Voldemort, and how he had faced him, and how he and Dumbledore had discussed fighting a losing battle not long thereafter. It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . . And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that the shelter of a parent's arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from his nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been before.	darkness death fighting forest protection safety	J.K. Rowling
b212398	I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.	fighting grown-ups	Anne Frank
8a06ded	There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them.	fighting right war	T.H. White
8c27e7e	"The "Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole" attack!"	fighting fullmetal-alchemist humor	Hiromu Arakawa
ac1c423	I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.	fighting loneliness the-witch-of-portobello	Paulo Coelho
91cd67b	Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.	cowards fighting heroes	Margaret Mitchell
99b4885	"Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance."	falling fighting humor	Tamora Pierce
a77ab7e	...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.	abusive abusive-parents anger broken-home childhood childhood-memories communication divorce emotional-abuse family father fight fighting fights fury heartbreak heartbroken love love-lost malice mental-abuse mother parenthood parents parents-and-children rage scared sexism silence terror	Gillian Flynn
fe83870	"It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!" --	attacking defense fighting offense tactics	Tamora Pierce
1e3820d	Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.	field fighting strategy war	Sun Tzu
4a546b4	Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.	caine fighting life morganville morganville-vampires peace vampires war	Rachel Caine
1d06b85	They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.	everything-stuck-to-him family fighting relationships winter	Raymond Carver
5fb8ad6	Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?	fighting love pain	Tamora Pierce
97f44f6	I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were entirely transactional: 'We're out of milk again.' (I'll get some today.) 'I need this ironed properly.' (I'll do that today.) 'How hard is it to buy milk?' (Silence.) 'You forgot to call the plumber.' (Sigh.) 'Goddammit, put on your coat, right now, and go out and get some goddamn milk. Now.' These messages and orders brought to you by my father, a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee.	abusive abusive-relationship abusive-relationships bad-parenting broken-home childhood childhood-memories communication depression divorce family father fight fighting fights heartbreak love love-lost mother parenthood parents parents-and-children relationship sexism silence	Gillian Flynn
fff95df	All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.	disputes fighting growth growth-process love love-quotes relationships true-love	bell hooks
c40f52f	"Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work." "It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself." "I never!" gasped Sarra, indignant. "You taught me when you were murdered in your own house," Daine said quietly."	death fighting sad self-defense	Tamora Pierce
c3421ef	" " she cried out. She would have a fresh bruise there by the time she went to sleep, somewhere out at sea. she told herself, Syrio stepped back. "You are dead now." Arya made a face. "You cheated," she said hotly. "You said left and you went right." "Just so. And now you are a dead girl." "But you " "My words lied. My eyes and my arm shouted out the truth, but you were not seeing." "I was so," Arya said. "I watched you every second!" "Watching is not seeing, dead girl. The water dancer sees. Come, put down the sword, it is time for listening now."	fighting listening seeing survival training	George R.R. Martin
724695d	Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.	arguments fighting words	David Mitchell
12b1cf8	I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters.	fighting leprechaun	Neil Gaiman
e5745e9	The afternoon breeze would incite to a weird and flabby activity all that crowded mass of clothing, with its vague suggestions of drowned, mutilated and flattened humanity. Trunks without heads waved at you arms without hands; legs without feet kicked fantastically with collapsible flourishes; and there were long white garments, that taking the wind fairly through their neck openings edged with lace, became for a moment violently distended as by the passage of obese and invisible bodies. On these days you could make out that ship at a great distance by the multi-coloured grotesque riot going on abaft her mizzen-mast.	fighting ship-life shipping	Joseph Conrad
8113b75	He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.	fighting self-defense survival	Margaret Atwood
beef11e	That's what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn't matter.	conflict-resolution fighting peace politics	James S.A. Corey
4cc6ed2	One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.	fighting standing victory	Markus Zusak
7719a80	"I notice you didn't include a blade with your new attire," Royce said. "Not even a little jeweled dagger." "Lords no." Albert looked appalled. "I don't fight." "I thought all nobles learned sword fighting." Royce looked to Hadrian. "I thought so too." "Nobles with competent fathers perhaps. I spent my formative years at my aunt's at Huffington Manor. She held a daily salon, where a dozen noble ladies came to discuss all manner of philosophical topics, like how much they hated their husbands. I've never actually held a sword, but I can tie a mean corset and apply face paint like a gold-coin whore."	fighting humor noble stereotypes	Michael J. Sullivan
b4dbfa8	"Kipster is a perfectly valid word," Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. "Okay, so what does it mean?" Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it... it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her. "Well Sarah's on drugs again and that's why she did it in Mario's backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid's been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there's a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won't go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and...." Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she'd learned it from Jud's death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days."	80-s argue baby boring bullying canada cape-breton coming-of-age drama drama-queen eating eighties fighting funny game gossip growing-up kipster maturity nostalgia nova-scotia pollution rumors scary scrabble self-harm suicide teenage words	Rebecca McNutt
02b06a9	"Where the hell is your guard?" She shouts. Damn if she doesn't sound like Haley. "I'm tired." "Do I look like I care? You're getting the hell pounded out of you. If you want to tap out, then tap out, but don't stand there and let him win."	cage fighting guard gym gym-feud kickboxing mats mma muay-thai muay-thai-for-women tap-out training ufc ya	Katie McGarry
ea3e7c6	Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.	fighting jealous jealousy love salman-rushdie the-satanic-verses	Salman Rushdie
5fbe590	I should at least die as I had lived--fighting.	fighting fighting-spirit	Edgar Rice Burroughs
547d243	When a guy goes out there and kills somebody, he might look at himself as the winner. But in truth he's also a loser, because now he would be lost in the system. If you were listening to the news recently, some people you know well are doing 45, and 64 years for murder. They might have won their fight, but they lost their lives to the system. Franco 'Co' Bethel, former gang leader and right hand man to Scrooge.	convicted-for-murder fighting gang-fights gang-killings killings loser lost-in-the-system lost-to-the-system murder prison prison-life street-fights the-system thug-life	Drexel Deal
11be815	Through all of those different wars, we came to understand each other. The Mason's fellas just wanted to chill in their area and be left alone. The Border Boys basically wanted the same thing. Stinky and Robert just wanted to be able to sell their drugs and make their money. But us, we were on a mission to take over the whole town. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members	aggression ambitious conflict-resolution conflicts drugs fighting gang-addiction gang-communities gang-intervention gang-life gang-members gang-wars mission money on-a-mission rebellion-raiders street-fights street-life take-over thug-life turf-wars understand understanding-each-other violence-addiction war	Drexel Deal
98c2d53	have you killed me, false thief?	brute canterbury fight fighting marriage	Chaucer Geoffrey
475d6fa	Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.	alcoholism-addiction-recovery arguing child drunk dysfunction fighting mental-illness violence wine	Mariel Hemingway
afeac47	it's like being attacked by a RAT!	fight fighting rejoinder	Chaucer Geoffrey
e397885	Trust me--you come close to death, you'll remember how you stepped out of its way	fighting instincts kaylin marcus	Michelle Sagara
404eca4	Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. 'In the name of the Father,' he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, 'and of the Son,' Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man's nose, 'and of the Holy Ghost!	father-hobbe fighting french priest quarterstaff	Bernard Cornwell

309e858

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

conflict fighting inspirational misattributed-to-gandhi trial

Nicholas Klein

0ff945a

I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

fighting funny humour husband inspirational love lover relationships romance spiritual sweet wife

Stephanie Lennox

cb437dd

"Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as far as she could into the water. Octavian made a squeaking sound. "What was that for? I didn't say it! That could've been evidence. Or spoils of war!" Annabeth tried for a dumb-blonde smile, like: Nobody who knew her would have been fooled. But Octavian seemed to buy it. He huffed in exasperation. "You other two..." He pointed his blade a Hazel and Piper. "Put your weapons on the dock. No funny bus--" All around the Romans, Charleston Harbor erupted like a Las Vegas fountain putting on a show. When the wall of seawater subsided, the three Romans were in the bay, spluttering and frantically trying to stay afloat in their armor. Percy stood on the dock, holding Annabeth's dagger. "You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced."

fighting octavian percy-jackson seawater smile

rick riordan

4d5cc47

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

fighting peace soldiers war

Bill Watterson

bb8eaf2

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

daine fighting misogyny owned

Tamora Pierce

0460ee5

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises--no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

fighting gurney-halleck practice preparation training warrior-training

Frank Herbert

9f5f37d

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

ancient ancient-china ancient-chinese body chinese conquers fighting inspirational philosophical philosophy proverb self-improvement self-realization training warrior

Confucius

d34e7a2

"Nosoi?" Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end." "You haven't killed me yet," I noted. "Don't tempt me."

fighting greek-mythology humor percy-jackson

Rick Riordan

481b584

And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encountered the thing that was then Voldemort, and how he had faced him, and how he and Dumbledore had discussed fighting a losing battle not long thereafter. It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . . And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that the shelter of a parent's arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from his nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been before.

darkness death fighting forest protection safety

J.K. Rowling

b212398

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

fighting grown-ups

Anne Frank

8a06ded

There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them.

fighting right war

T.H. White

8c27e7e

"The "Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole" attack!"

fighting fullmetal-alchemist humor

Hiromu Arakawa

ac1c423

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

fighting loneliness the-witch-of-portobello

Paulo Coelho

91cd67b

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

cowards fighting heroes

Margaret Mitchell

99b4885

"Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance."

falling fighting humor

Tamora Pierce

a77ab7e

...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.

abusive abusive-parents anger broken-home childhood childhood-memories communication divorce emotional-abuse family father fight fighting fights fury heartbreak heartbroken love love-lost malice mental-abuse mother parenthood parents parents-and-children rage scared sexism silence terror

Gillian Flynn

fe83870

"It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!" --

attacking defense fighting offense tactics

Tamora Pierce

1e3820d

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

field fighting strategy war

Sun Tzu

4a546b4

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

caine fighting life morganville morganville-vampires peace vampires war

Rachel Caine

1d06b85

They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.

everything-stuck-to-him family fighting relationships winter

Raymond Carver

5fb8ad6

Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?

fighting love pain

Tamora Pierce

97f44f6

I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were entirely transactional: 'We're out of milk again.' (I'll get some today.) 'I need this ironed properly.' (I'll do that today.) 'How hard is it to buy milk?' (Silence.) 'You forgot to call the plumber.' (Sigh.) 'Goddammit, put on your coat, right now, and go out and get some goddamn milk. Now.' These messages and orders brought to you by my father, a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee.

abusive abusive-relationship abusive-relationships bad-parenting broken-home childhood childhood-memories communication depression divorce family father fight fighting fights heartbreak love love-lost mother parenthood parents parents-and-children relationship sexism silence

Gillian Flynn

fff95df

All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.

disputes fighting growth growth-process love love-quotes relationships true-love

bell hooks

c40f52f

"Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work." "It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself." "I never!" gasped Sarra, indignant. "You taught me when you were murdered in your own house," Daine said quietly."

death fighting sad self-defense

Tamora Pierce

c3421ef

" " she cried out. She would have a fresh bruise there by the time she went to sleep, somewhere out at sea. she told herself, Syrio stepped back. "You are dead now." Arya made a face. "You cheated," she said hotly. "You said left and you went right." "Just so. And now you are a dead girl." "But you " "My words lied. My eyes and my arm shouted out the truth, but you were not seeing." "I was so," Arya said. "I watched you every second!" "Watching is not seeing, dead girl. The water dancer sees. Come, put down the sword, it is time for listening now."

fighting listening seeing survival training

George R.R. Martin

724695d

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

arguments fighting words

David Mitchell

12b1cf8

I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters.

fighting leprechaun

Neil Gaiman

e5745e9

The afternoon breeze would incite to a weird and flabby activity all that crowded mass of clothing, with its vague suggestions of drowned, mutilated and flattened humanity. Trunks without heads waved at you arms without hands; legs without feet kicked fantastically with collapsible flourishes; and there were long white garments, that taking the wind fairly through their neck openings edged with lace, became for a moment violently distended as by the passage of obese and invisible bodies. On these days you could make out that ship at a great distance by the multi-coloured grotesque riot going on abaft her mizzen-mast.

fighting ship-life shipping

Joseph Conrad

8113b75

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.

fighting self-defense survival

Margaret Atwood

beef11e

That's what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn't matter.

conflict-resolution fighting peace politics

James S.A. Corey

4cc6ed2

One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.

fighting standing victory

Markus Zusak

7719a80

"I notice you didn't include a blade with your new attire," Royce said. "Not even a little jeweled dagger." "Lords no." Albert looked appalled. "I don't fight." "I thought all nobles learned sword fighting." Royce looked to Hadrian. "I thought so too." "Nobles with competent fathers perhaps. I spent my formative years at my aunt's at Huffington Manor. She held a daily salon, where a dozen noble ladies came to discuss all manner of philosophical topics, like how much they hated their husbands. I've never actually held a sword, but I can tie a mean corset and apply face paint like a gold-coin whore."

fighting humor noble stereotypes

Michael J. Sullivan

b4dbfa8

"Kipster is a perfectly valid word," Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. "Okay, so what does it mean?" Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it... it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her. "Well Sarah's on drugs again and that's why she did it in Mario's backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid's been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there's a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won't go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and...." Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she'd learned it from Jud's death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days."

80-s argue baby boring bullying canada cape-breton coming-of-age drama drama-queen eating eighties fighting funny game gossip growing-up kipster maturity nostalgia nova-scotia pollution rumors scary scrabble self-harm suicide teenage words

Rebecca McNutt

02b06a9

"Where the hell is your guard?" She shouts. Damn if she doesn't sound like Haley. "I'm tired." "Do I look like I care? You're getting the hell pounded out of you. If you want to tap out, then tap out, but don't stand there and let him win."

cage fighting guard gym gym-feud kickboxing mats mma muay-thai muay-thai-for-women tap-out training ufc ya

Katie McGarry

ea3e7c6

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

fighting jealous jealousy love salman-rushdie the-satanic-verses

Salman Rushdie

5fbe590

I should at least die as I had lived--fighting.

fighting fighting-spirit

Edgar Rice Burroughs

547d243

When a guy goes out there and kills somebody, he might look at himself as the winner. But in truth he's also a loser, because now he would be lost in the system. If you were listening to the news recently, some people you know well are doing 45, and 64 years for murder. They might have won their fight, but they lost their lives to the system. Franco 'Co' Bethel, former gang leader and right hand man to Scrooge.

convicted-for-murder fighting gang-fights gang-killings killings loser lost-in-the-system lost-to-the-system murder prison prison-life street-fights the-system thug-life

Drexel Deal

11be815

Through all of those different wars, we came to understand each other. The Mason's fellas just wanted to chill in their area and be left alone. The Border Boys basically wanted the same thing. Stinky and Robert just wanted to be able to sell their drugs and make their money. But us, we were on a mission to take over the whole town. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members

aggression ambitious conflict-resolution conflicts drugs fighting gang-addiction gang-communities gang-intervention gang-life gang-members gang-wars mission money on-a-mission rebellion-raiders street-fights street-life take-over thug-life turf-wars understand understanding-each-other violence-addiction war

Drexel Deal

98c2d53

have you killed me, false thief?

brute canterbury fight fighting marriage

Chaucer Geoffrey

475d6fa

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

alcoholism-addiction-recovery arguing child drunk dysfunction fighting mental-illness violence wine

Mariel Hemingway

afeac47

it's like being attacked by a RAT!

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Chaucer Geoffrey

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Trust me--you come close to death, you'll remember how you stepped out of its way

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Michelle Sagara

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Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. 'In the name of the Father,' he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, 'and of the Son,' Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man's nose, 'and of the Holy Ghost!

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Bernard Cornwell