#ang

If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Syme, staring. "The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#calm #composure #anger

To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous. ↗

— Herman Melville

#anger

But it always came back to anger. ↗

— Cecilia Gray

#back #anger

Forgotten about you?" He caught her chin, forced her to make eye contact, his gaze flashing anger, then slowly going gentle. "That would never happen. Never." And Natalie got the sense that she'd hurt him. ↗

— Pamela Clare

#pamela-clare #anger

You've always been skinny, always will." I can feel each reclusive bone poke through, the bones of Embarrassment, Anger, Relief. I push some back in, but leave Anger sticking out. ↗

— Thalia Chaltas

#anger

He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center." Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick. ↗

— Ben Mikaelsen

#anger #happiness #left-end-of-the-stick #anger

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger. ↗

— Helen Oyeyemi

#anger

Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow. ↗

— Helen Oyeyemi

#swallowing #words #anger

He had gone right through fear and come out the other side in some place cold. Anger was all that kept him warm. They could gentle him, or burn him to a crisp where he stood, and he no longer cared. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#anger

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#blood #brain #anger