Quotes About Fear

She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before her questioners or her guards. In men's minds fear was a certain mark of guilt.

Majesty, there is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

Love is terribly sincere and great. I suppose that is why so many people are afraid of it, and so few can live up to it. — Bliss Carman to Gladys Baldwin, 1915 (age 52)

She thought she would feel more at ease once she was outside, but the footsteps pursued her along the street.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,"—"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand." (Bones)

From now on, when we board, each time we board, I will remind you to be terrified,' she says. 'And you remind me, too: this is not normal.' 'This is not normal.' Soledad nods.

Less than two weeks ago, dirt on the floor in her hallway was a thing that could annoy her. It's unimaginable. The reality of what happened is so much worse than the very worst of her imaginary fears had ever been. But it could be worse still.

She's aware that she and her companions represent something to these men. They look like home. Or they look like salvation. Or they look like prey. To an halcón they might look like reward money.

Her body feels like cracked glass, already shattered, and held in place only by a trick of temporary gravity. One wrong move and she will come to pieces.

And she'd believed, truly, that Javier wouldn't hurt them. What she wouldn't give to go back to that moment with Sebastián, to say anything else.

none of them had chosen to marry Sebastián, or to take on the risks of his profession as their own. Only she had done that, and now her family had paid for her choice. The fears of her past and the horrors of her present are so mixed up they feel like the unmatching pieces of a rompecabezas, like she's trying to piece together things that were never meant to fit.

Beto is afraid of turning eleven, because it feels like a treachery to his brother. "But I guess it would be worse to not turn eleven, right?

Then he has the idea that perhaps the scent is finite, and he fears he might use it all up, so he stops touching it.

She could do anything back then, before she had maternal fear to spark any real caution in her soul.

One of the very first bullets comes in through the open window above the toilet where Luca is standing.

That love is so vast I sometimes fear it," he said. "I can never hope to earn it, so I fear it will disappear, it will consume me. And at the same time, it's the only good thing I've ever done in my life.

She's been afraid for so long that now she can't catch up to the facts: it was already him, and the rest of her family. It really did happen; all those years of worry did not prevent it.

The absolute absence of him feels like unmitigated terror.

a few miles outside Culiacán, the monotony is broken by screaming. A lone voice repeats the words over and over, like a siren: ¡la migra, la migra!

If a tourist mecca like Acapulco could fall, then nowhere in Mexico was safe.

Luca wonders what it would feel like to blow up like that. But for now he remains undetonated, his horrors sealed tightly inside, his pin fixed snugly in place.

Less than two weeks ago, dirt on the floor in her hallway was a thing that could annoy her. It's unimaginable. The reality of what happened is so much worse than the very worst of her imaginary fears had ever been.

Because fear and corruption work in tandem to censor the people who might otherwise discover the clues that would point to justice. There will be no evidence, no due process, no vindication