Quotes About Fear

It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it. "Yes.

The high she'd felt when he took that first breath had gone. Like getting to the top of a roller coaster: there was a nanosecond of pure exhilaration before the headlong plunge into fear.

She was a teacher, for God's sake. What did she know to say about dangers such as these? How could she assuage a child's fear when her own was straining at the leash?

Perhaps she was looking at the other side of fear. What happened to a child when fear had been the norm forever Ã¢â'¬Â¦ did it melt into watchfulness?

Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living.

He stood slowly and took her in his arms. She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.

her grandfather had leaned down and whispered, Be brave, into her ear. And then, Or pretend to be. It's all the same.

Thoughts—even fears—were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice, and once given that weight, they could crush you.

When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather. There is nothing that can't hurt our kids, I swear...the irony is they need us to be strong

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 Ã¢â'¬Â¦

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.

Vianne was thankful for the bell. She was a teacher, for God's sake. What did she know to say about dangers such as these? How could she assuage a child's fear when her own was straining at the leash?

Survival took grit and courage and effort. It was too easy to give in. No matter how afraid she was, she had to teach her children every day how to survive.

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

She tried to take strength from that, to truly believe it, but hope was becoming difficult to hold on to. Each passing day had sanded her down, weakened the walls of her denial; in places, fear called itself truth and poked through.

He stood up slowly and took her in his arms. She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.

I am afraid t put it into words, this fragile impossible hope of mine, and more afraid not to.

Annie had made so many mistakes, and most of them had been because she'd planted herself firmly in the middle of the road. But now she knew that life without risk was impossible, and if by chance you stumbled across a safe, serene existence, it was because you'd never really reached for anything in the first place.

Pretend to be brave if you have to.

The more she got, the more she wanted, the more afraid she was of losing it, and the harder she worked.

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

The sound of his voice reminds me that I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

El miedo no era lo que importaba en la vida. Lo importante eran las elecciones que hacías cuando estabas asustada.

Todo ese tiempo, papá le había estado enseñando a Leni los peligros del mundo exterior. Lo cierto era que el mayor peligro estaba dentro de su propia casa.