Standoffs Quotes

My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there. ~ Ruta Sepetys

All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending. You throw out murders and reversals and heroes and detectives and spies, juggle love affairs and near escapes and standoffs with marvellous guns, kidnappings and sorcery and comic relief and gravediggers and princesses and albino dragons, and it's all just to lure an ending into your bed. ~ Catherynne M Valente

Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff."
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Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments.
"Old-fashioned standoffs are mighty borin ~ Derek Landy

This has to be one of the strangest standoffs in history. 'No, please, you air your grievances first.' 'No, no, I couldn't possibly. ~ Katee Robert