Rachel Caine Quotes

You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'

Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

I was never the person to try and be the centre of attention or to talk a lot. I was always the person who, if you say something, I'd just punch you in your face. For real.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

Closing one's eyes is not a recipe for peace. It is a simple way to embolden aggressive personalities.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.

Thanks for not freaking out," I said. "Oh, I'm freaking out," Paul promised, his eyes wide. "I just think it's awesome!

I didn't say a lot. I didn't throw anything. That's not my style. I did think about it though.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.