Quotes About Fear

We're all afraid," Anita said. "It's the going on that matters.

There's nothing wrong with being scared. It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we are afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.

Don't you dare say that to me, not this time. Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is, Angel. Being afraid, being afraid in the marrow of your bones, and going on.

The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.

Fear made you run and hide and shame made you stay quiet

You were struggling to break free of being my daughter but unsure of how to be yourself, while I was afraid to let you go. It's the circle of love.

Let him think she was as safe as one could be. A coward.

The last thing she wanted was to give someone the power to hurt her. Self-preservation was the one thing she'd learned from her mother.

A generation of men were going off to war. Again. Don't think about it, Vianne told herself. Don't remember what it was like last time when the men limped home, faces burned, missing arms and legs...

felt to her as if her family stood poised on the edge of a great precipice that could collapse at any second, crumble away like the houses that crashed down Seattle's unstable, waterlogged hillsides.

city becomes one long line. Everything is disappearing, especially politeness. Rations are consistently being cut, and often there is no food to be had, even with a ration card. Vera, like everyone else, is tired and hungry and afraid.

You're afraid of love, but you've got so much of it to give.

My grandfather was a Texas Ranger. He used to tell me that courage was a lie. It was just fear that you ignored." She looked at him. "Well, I'm scared.

now? I don't know the right thing to do anymore. I want to protect Sophie and keep her safe, but what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God? If I am arrested . .

If she opened her mouth she might start screaming. Or if she looked at him she might cry, might demand to know how it was that children could be shot in the dark for nothing.

It can't be true," she said. "The worst can always be true," Papa said grimly.

I want to protect Sophie and keep her safe, but what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God? If I am arrested Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I know I won't be able to stand on the edge of intimacy. Sooner or later, I will have to dive into those cold, deep waters, and there is no end to the ripples my entrance will make. I

She was crying for all of it at last—for the pain and loss and fear and anger, for the war and what it had done to her and to all of them, for the knowledge of evil she could never shake, for the horror of where she'd been and what she'd done to survive.

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of fear, not in spite of it.

She was sure he saw some spatter of blood or dirt somewhere on her, at her temple or on the back of her hand. There was an almost imperceptible pause; she knew he was waiting for her to look at him, to communicate what had happened, but she just sat there. If she opened her mouth she might start screaming. Or if she looked at him she might cry, might demand to know how it was that children could be shot in the dark for nothing.

Relying on people for comfort had never felt natural to her. The last thing she wanted was to give someone the power to hurt her.

Hiroshima. There are a million ways for this sick, corrupt world to end.

Three years ago, I began writing this novel about hard times in America: the worst environmental disaster in our history; the collapse of the economy; the effect of massive unemployment. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that the Great Depression would become so relevant in our modern lives, that I would see so many people out of work, in need, frightened for the future.