Quotes About Danger

Her mind's always spinning, thinking about the next thing, the next danger. It's a good quality, he guesses, but an exhausting one.

These three cards represent the past, the present, and the future," she told Evie. "The first card is the Tower. It means you came from a difficult past. You were trapped and in danger." "Pretty much. I mean, I am from the Isle of the Lost," said Evie. "I was exiled to our castle with my mother, the Evil Queen." "Dangerous indeed," said Celia. "When I missed our usual Friday face mask, she wanted to murder me

You had to draw lines, and that choice was in itself dangerous; all boundaries had a double edge, were like swords that could always be turned against you in the end. But you still had to choose.

The door to this building was left not only unlocked but ajar. As we are not generally in the business of inviting burglars to walk in and make themselves at home, I do hope you have an excellent explanation. We were being pursued by a writing desk that eats men's hearts, Julian said. Oppenshaw considered that. Interesting, he said.

from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

Anyone who thought this would be a weak point in the manor's defenses would have a rude surprise, shortly before coming down with a serious case of death.

Well," Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. "Nobody shot us." "Yet," Dominick answered.

Yeah, and if I have to choose between being eaten by the Endarkened and telling my Da I'm a Wildmage, I'm not sure which I'd pick.

I, ah … I suppose it's for the best. That you … aren't a boy, I mean. There was another, longer awkward pause. I … I'm glad you aren't a boy. Despite the danger, the horror, the utterly terrible ridiculousness of the situation, Clarice felt like laughing. Thank you, she said gravely. I'm glad I'm not a boy, too.

an untutored lout with a sledgehammer could kill you just as dead as an assassin with a stiletto.

In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.

Beware of gunpowder, and ships cooks, and pantechnicons, and sausages, and shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax.

sees them trapped and they are rescued by Benjamin's

Sleep was our deadliest enemy. Every mountaineer knows that if you allow yourself to be taken down by that cold, it is a one-way ticket to death. There are no exceptions. Your core temperature plunges until your heart stops. So we yelled at each other, and hit each other and kicked each other. Anything to remain awake.

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she's a woman. We know she's a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.

sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilderness she can enter be solaced believing the power that there be sacred place that there can be atonement now she returns with no fear facing the past ready to risk knowing these woods now hold beauty and danger

While perfect passion provides us with its own particular pleasure and danger, for those of us seeking perfect love it can only ever be a preliminary stage in the process. We can only move from perfect passion to perfect love when the illusions pass and we are able to use the energy and intensity generated by intense, overwhelming, erotic bonding to heighten self-discovery.

Grant was torn loose from his foot restraints and went sailing across the bridge, optic fibers popping loose.

blowing sparks and broken pieces across the bridge.

Fear has two components to it, Kirill. There's the intellectual awareness of something that might harm you. And there's the emotional, glandular reaction to that perception. I'm fully aware of the danger we're in. But it won't do us any good to let our glands dominate our brains, will it?

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger.

You will not fight in the shield wall," my father said. "No, Father." "Only men can stand in the shield wall," he said, "but you will watch, you will learn, and you will discover that the most dangerous stroke is not the sword or ax that you can see, but the one you cannot see, the blade that comes beneath the shields to bite your ankles.

Play with the devil, Finan said, and you get burned.