Quotes About Fear

You let us out right now, o r Gabe is going to shoot you with his gun! I mean it! He's got a million guns, and he'll shoot you, then cut you up with a knife!

thread of panic in her voice.

Tell me what's happening," he went on. "Why is someone after you? What do they want?" She placed her palm on her chest and drawled, "The key to my heart." A muscle ticked in his jaw. "Keep your secrets then. I don't care." "No reason you should

Ven, chico. La joven no está interesada. Mientras Digger lo alejaba de allí, Tater le lanzó por encima del hombro una mirada de adolescente enamorado. Daisy no sabía si sentir temor o agradecimiento por gustarle al menos a alguien de ese horrible circo.

Alex, no pasa nada. No voy a enamorarme de ti. En cuanto las palabras salieron de su boca, Daisy notó una pequeña punzada en el corazón. Eso la asustó, porque sabía que sería una catástrofe enamorarse de él. Eran demasiado diferentes. Él era duro, serio y cínico, mientras que ella era justo lo contrario.

She saw a world so terrified of Woman's mystical power that nothing would do but to obliterate the very source of that power—the natural shape of her body.

Your body, Lilly… don't you see? This is the body that gave birth to the human race." His words ran counter to everything that the world she lived in preached. Diets. Denial. An obsession with female bone instead of female flesh. The culture of youth and thinness. Of stinginess. Of disfigurement. Of fear.

she was afraid she might be turning into one of those cynical people who hug old bitterness like a treasured bone to be gnawed over forever.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.

An unpredictable parent is a fearsome god in the eyes of a child.

What makes a controlling parent so insidious is that the domination usually comes in the guise of concern. Phrases such as, "this is for your own good," "I'm only doing this for you," and, "only because I love you so much," all mean the same thing: "I'm doing this because I'm so afraid of losing you that I'm willing to make you miserable.

Life doesn't always go according to plan. Sometimes heading in a new direction can be scary until you realize you're headed toward a new and exciting destination.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

No, indeed. I wasn't expecting it at all, so all I could do was stammer that I had no plans of marrying so young and that I was quite happy in my present state of life. He stomped off, but that wasn't the end of it. The next day, he came back in a drunken rage and threatened to drink my heart's blood—charming image, isn't it?—and my mother's too. I have no idea what made him drag her into it.

which is that it is better to bind a child by love than by fear.

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

She had a ghostly pallor and a dreadful expression, she wore clothes that were out of keeping with the styles of the present-day; she had kept her distance from me and she had not spoken. Something emanating from her still, silent presence, in each case by a grave, had communicated itself to me so strongly that I had felt indescribable repulsion and fear. And she had appeared and then vanished in a way that surely no real, living, fleshly human being could possibly manage to do. And

czÅ'owiek nie mo?e pozostawa? bez koÅ"ca w stanie wielkiego przera?enia. Albo emocje rosnÄ… do tego stopnia, ze pod naciskiem coraz okropniejszych wypadków i skojarzeÅ" ono ogarnia go tak bardzo, ?e ucieka bÄ…d? popada w szaleÅ"stwo. Lu te? wewnÄ™trzne poruszenie zacznie go stopniowo opuszcza?, ustÄ™pujÄ…c miejsca rosnÄ…cemu opanowaniu.

We are all clothed with fleece of sheep I keep saying as if I were singing as these words do. Throw a shawl over me so you won't be afraid to sleep. I have already shown that space is God.

What about stakes in the heart?" I asked now. He frowned, the center of his mouth pursed while its corners curled downward. "Anyone will die from a stake in the heart," he said. "And anyone will die if they're severely burned, including vampires.

autumn of 1918, I had just started fifth grade when signs began popping up in windows and on doors, on broadsheets plastered on streetlamps around the neighborhood. Suddenly big public gatherings were being discouraged; taverns, moving-picture houses, soda fountains—even churches—grew empty. Nobody knew what it was exactly, except that it started quickly, with a cough and a fever.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

he felt his heart stop. He knew each curve and volume and tactile sensation intimately, her image reconstructed by his searching fingers. And he was wretchedly struck at the horrendous extent of her danger. She had come for him, he knew without a doubt, and if he hadn't known he loved her before, he would have surely then. She was here beside him