Quotes About Fear

the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear.

if you're thinking of calling the guards, know that the only reason I have for not stabbing you in the throat is the fear that you might die loudly.' The Ghost gives me a small, wry smile. 'I would, you know. Very loudly. Just to spite you.

Vow she won't be harmed,' Oak says, breathing hard. 'Also me. I would like not to be harmed as well.

She had shrieked and shrieked for her mother, but her mother was already there. Her mother was the monster.

Cardan's fingers dig into my back. He's trembling, and whether it is from ebbing magic or horror, I am not sure. But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

What they don't realise is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle in to my bones, and ignore it. If I didn't pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc's estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.

Poison may be a coward's weapon, but it's an effective one.

When you're in danger , everything becomes clear,doesn't it? Everything else falls away. Danger is a terrible addiction, but that's what I like - the clarity of thought that it provides. How about you?

Let me be feared and never again afraid.

Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your heart's blood should run cold.

I have seen this place so many times in my night terrors that, even half-demolished, I cannot help but feel like I am in another awful dream.

You can't help trying to charm every snake you come upon, no matter how cold-blooded or vicious. Let that one be.

He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into his arms.

I may be rotten, but my one virtue is that I'm not a killer. I wanted to frighten you, but I never wanted you dead. I never wanted anyone dead.

No quiero ser un monstruo, pero quizá sea demasiado tarde para poder ser otra cosa.

I have trained every day to be dangerous, and he is entirely in my power, yet I'm the one who is afraid.

Do you seek out peril? One would think that years of being a mortal would have made you more aware of mortality.

Cosa sarei potuta diventare se avessi smesso di preoccuparmi della morte, del dolore, di tutto? Se avessi smesso di cercare un senso di appartenenza? Invece di avere paura, sarei diventata io quella da temere.

In this hair, and with this dress, I look pretty. The kind of pretty that allows monsters to deceive people into forests, into dances where they will find their doom.

It had a pale body and crept on all fours, with claws as long as one of her fingers.

Tana," Aidan said as soon as he saw her. "Tana, they're going to come in as soon as it's dark. They told us." He looked pale and frantic, worse than she remembered him looking when she'd left. "We're going to die, Tana." "Condamné à mort," a voice rasped from the other side of the door. She could hear the creatures whispering to one another in the hall, shifting hungrily, waiting for the sun to set. Her hands shook.

I can feel myself start to tremble

It was terrifying," he says, "watching you fall. I mean, you're generally terrifying, but I am not used to fearing for you. And then I was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before." ~Cardan

I am going to kill you," Tamara said very calmly. "I am going to sort your guts into piles.