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I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed.


Stewart O'Nan


#arguments #coming-home #daughters #family #fights

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.


Alain de Botton


#arguments #snappiness #anger

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses." "Excuses, eh?" Well, if this ain't cynicism, what is?" Erens snorted. "Yes, excuses," he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. "I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you're supposed to argue about, come later. They're the least important part of the belief. That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He looked at Erens. "You've attacked the wrong thing.


Iain M. Banks


#belief #erens #excuses #instinct #justifications

I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the truck, leaving her standing there. She blinked her eyes, and slowly a smile stretched her lips. She strolled to the truck and got in. "So, are you homicidal or merely as irritable as a wounded buffalo?" "About halfway in between," he said through clenched teeth. "Anything I can do to help?" His eyes were narrow and intense. "It isn't just the cigarettes. Take off your panties and lock your legs around me, and I'll show you.


Linda Howard


#cigarettes #quit-smoking #tension #family

It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".


Jordan Sonnenblick


#euphemism #humor #parents #humor

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.


E. Lockhart


#philosophy-of-life #life

It is my rule never to take a side in any part in the quarrels of others, nor to inquire into them. I generally presume them to flow from the indulgence of too much passion on both sides, & always find that each party thinks all the wrong was in his adversary. These bickerings, which are always useless, embitter human life more than any other cause...


Thomas Jefferson


#quarrels #life

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.


Pete Wentz


#fighting #fights #gray #love #pete-wentz

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#family #marriage #relationships #family

When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.


Rebecca McKinsey


#boldness #humor #words #wordsmithing #humor






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