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Quotes About Fear

Toat? lumea, continu? ea, privind în jur spre noi, are ceva de spus. Dar nu toat? lumea poate suporta s? o spun?. Treaba voastr? e s? g?si?i o modalitate.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Does that scare you? Are you afraid that if I take away the mysterious part of you, I won't like you anymore?
~ Meg Wolitzer
Anyone who ever gave a speech," said Faith, "was once someone who didn't. ...
~ Meg Wolitzer
I was born like this. I came out of the womb saying, 'I'm worried that something's wrong with me. There's this weird growth between my legs!
~ Meg Wolitzer
We can't be afraid of change, or else we'll miss out on everything.
~ Meg Wolitzer
The Buffalo nipple' became a secret phrase that referred not only to this specific event, but to any misguided action that a person might perform in life out of longing or weakness or fear, or pretty much out of anything human.
~ Meg Wolitzer
He thought she might kill him accidentally or on purpose.
~ Meg Wolitzer
It's basically my fear about what happens when you leave a room. Everyone says the thing about you that you really can't bear.
~ Meg Wolitzer
I can't bear the idea of looking deeply. Because you inevitably turn up horrible things.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Later on, when it wasn't just facts that were required, it got so much harder for her. To have to put yourself out there - your opinions, your essence, the particular substance that churned inside you and made you who you were - both exhausted and frightened Greer.
~ Meg Wolitzer
and he was afraid she was going to get that middle-aged coven-member look cultivated by some older women with long hair.
~ Meg Wolitzer
The fear all men have that there's something inside us that shifts, and turns. A living thing, once dormant, stirring now, and filled with rage.
~ Megan Abbott
Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you can't stop because you're … because-
~ Megan Abbott
she told me her secret. And showed me what darkness was, and is, and how it works, and how it never goes away or ends.
~ Megan Abbott
Never make eye contact with a wolf. The wolf will take it as a challenge.  
~ Megan Abbott
He'd tried to explain it to her, how accidents happen but we really are safe. But there was, already, the sense that nothing he said touched what was really bothering her, which was the realization that you can't stop bad things from happening to other people, other things. And that would be hard forever. He'd never quite gotten used to it himself.
~ Megan Abbott
Sometimes, during those same bleak middle-of-the-nights, he held secret fears he never said aloud. Demons had come in the dark, come with the famous Dryden fog that rolled through the town, and taken possession of his lovely, smart, kindhearted wife. And next they'd come for his daughter too.
~ Megan Abbott
I figured I'd duck out....before Goody Osbourne took the stand.
~ Megan Abbott
The raw, ugly, mottled things you fear about yourself in your most private moments--what happens when someone says them aloud to you? The feeling like your skin slipped from your body, showing everything, red and veined.
~ Megan Abbott
When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you. (~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
~ Megan Abbott
Many of these men, and the women too, sometimes even more so, would like to use your heart against you," she says. "They think it's a ticking time bomb in your chest, waiting to explode." "Maybe it is," Diane blurts out. I look at her. Severin smiles. "Maybe that's our strength.
~ Megan Abbott
People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.
~ Megan Abbott
I have another friend who gets what I'm really like, and I get her. She scares me. Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?
~ Megan Abbott
The drone in my ear, it's like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into our chests. Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sounds of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever
~ Megan Abbott