Wound Tighter Than Quotes

The whole weekend turned out to be one giant round of excruciating foreplay, and if he doesn't stop stalling and give me some relief pretty damn pronto, there's going to be a girl-parts rebellion the likes of which he's never seen. I'm wound tighter than Jane Fonda's latest facelift, goddammit.

Loose you're kidding, right? You're wound up tighter than a pissed-off rattlesnake.

It had seemed like a good idea at the time, a sure-fire way to impress this girl, who was as cute as hell but wound tighter than one of his father’s antique clocks.

Merv was a take-no-shit kind of guy. He was tall, built like a block of concrete, and had three basic settings: angry, brooding, and wound-tighter-than-a-gnat’s-ass.

He just needs the right woman to open him up. He was wound tighter than a Victorian corset.

It could be the start of a story or the end of one, Will thought, as they headed out together into the cold, dark street. It could be a farewell, or the foundation of a friendship. It could be an awkward drink in a crowded pub with an upper-class man wound tighter than a neurasthenic’s pocket watch, or just possibly something else entirely, something precious and fragile that Will didn’t want to look at straight on in case he jinxed it. It could be anything. He might as well find out what.

Look at him. He’s wound up tighter than a bishop’s balls in a brothel.

Tonight was supposed to be beautiful for you.” Tears slipped from his eyes. “God, I can’t take this pain from her. I want to. But I can’t. Can You do that? Please? Can You heal the wounds to her heart that she hides with a smile. Can You hold her tighter than I can? Be ever present for her. I understand that I’m a man of strength but You’re so much stronger than me. Heal her in places that were damaged before You placed her in my path. Please.