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Quotes About Fear

Who knows why people are scared of things, right? If
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Left with no choice, Janice curled up on the bed where she drowned in her sadness. ~ Janice woke in the darkness to a woman's screams. Moonlight from
~ Catherine Scott
Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.
~ Catherine Watson
Lincoln's smile could have scared rattlesnakes.
~ Catherine Webb
Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You are young and far from your Death, September, so I seem as anything would seem if you saw it from a long way off-very small, very harmless. But I am always closer than I appear. As you grow, I shall grow with you, until at the end, I shall loom huge and dark over your bed, and you will shut your eyes so as not to see me.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please don't punish me for saying it. I think you know you're cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I don't want to run errands for someone cruel.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
At night, she whispered into the pipes: I hate it here. Please take me away, let me be something other than Marya, something magical, with a round belly. Frighten me, make me cry, only come back.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
But the Tsar of Death and the Tsar of Life greatly feared one another, for Death is surrounded by souls, and is never lonely, and the Tsar of Life had hidden his death away in a place deeper than secrets, and more secret than depth.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Will you beat me if I say no?" he whispered fearfully. September thought she might cry. "Oh...oh dear. Not all the world is like that. Well. I am not like that.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Sophia fully and truly thinks she will die. The sound of it is a knife, if a knife could kiss, and the kiss could turn the color of morning... ... Yet it contains a perfection that is twin to pain.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I lost sight of myself so long ago that I'm hesistant to try to find myself. I'm afraid to begin. Existing sometimes gives me heart palpitations. I'm so afraid to be me.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Lives have apocalypses, too. You just can't know when you're in it until the water is already closing over your head and all you can hear are volcanoes, one after the other, detonating the possibility of the future you imagined.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Ettekö te... pelkää sutta?" kysyi Syyskuu, joka salaa uskoi voivansa hyvinkin päästä sellaisesta pelosta, jos susi rakastaisi häntä ja vartioisi häntä eikä sotkisi peittoja mutaan.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
She could be quite brave in the presence of a Wyverary, but tall and lovely ladies made her shy, even if they were made of soap.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
who am i, really? What does any of it mean? i'm so afraid someday everyone will see that i'm just an imposter, a fake, among all the real and gorgeous godheads. -
~ Catherynne M. Valente
SOMEONE IS APPROACHING THE SHIP. SOMEONE BIG. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. I WILL BITE THEM. I WILL. LET ME BITE THEM. YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY. EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER IF I BITE THEM. TRUST GRUMPO. GOOD BOY GRUMPO.
~ Catherynne M. Valente