Quotes About Fear

I don't want her to kill you. I mean, someday you burn her grilled cheese, and the next thing you know, my phone's ringing and you've taken an awful fall from the roof or some shit. Leave.

of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong

Something bad was going to happen.

She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale.

I really believe Nick will come after me. I turn toward the house and see only a closed door.

What do I say to a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off?

152 and the world isn't ruined. 153 and I haven't destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

I understand now why so many horror movies use that device—the mysterious knock on the door—because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.

Pero no lo dije en voz alta; a menudo no digo las cosas en voz alta, ni siquiera cuando debería. Contengo y compartimiento hasta un extremo preocupante: en el sótano de mi vientre hay cientos de botellas llenas de ira, desespero, temor, pero uno nunca lo adivinaría al verme.

Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness.

You recognize her?" He actually looked stricken. "She wanted to buy a gun.

twice-removed somethings and whom I only mildly terrorized.

rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

I opened the door. Nonononono.

she day-dreamed about dying.

Susan Burke was silent for a few beats. Then: "My life is falling apart," she murmured. She was extremely pretty but so wary and nervous you didn't realize she was pretty until you looked hard at her.

streaking out

Partia do princípio de que tudo de mau no mundo podia acontecer, porque tudo o que havia de mau no mundo já tinha acontecido. Mas, verdade seja dita, não eram ínfimas as hipóteses de me acontecer alguma coisa de mal depois de tudo o que já passara na vida? Não estava eu, Libby Day, a salvo?

Se interrumpe, sé que está a punto de mentir. Es la peor sensación: cuando tienes que esperar y armarte de valor para la mentira.

Amy was absolutely beautiful. I hated her. I was afraid of her.

A veces creo que la enfermedad yace agazapada en el interior de todas las mujeres, esperando el momento oportuno para aflorar... He conocido a tantísimas mujeres «enfermas» en mi vida... Enfermas, más enfermas y las más enfermas. ¿Qué era real y qué era falso?

I pushed a foot out from under my sheets, but couldn't bring myself to connect it to the floor.

In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.