"Her suspense was terrible."

Tension, Suspense, Fear, Emotion, Uncertainty

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"A silence absorbed them both " a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. "Sometimes I really want to-a frustrated sound-"bite you! He froze. "I might let you. "I won't do it if you'd enjoy it."

Nalini Singh, New Zealander Author

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"No. No, I don't want my hands restrained."Yes. You do."

Cherise Sinclair, American Author

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"It took me a lifetime."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

Tension, Awareness, Boundaries, Expectation, Innocence

"Tension means you want to be something else that you are not."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Tension, Acceptance

"There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Tension, Fear, Stillness, Choice, Fate

"To get along with me, don't increase my tension."

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"He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"These groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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"He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things."

Nature

"There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating."

Culture

"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."

Life

"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."

Identity

"Done because we are too many."

Society

"To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars."

Reflection

"Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences."

Philosophy

"Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong."

Emotion

"When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover."

Relationship

"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."

Renewal