Quotes About Fear

So," I said climbing to my feet and changing the subject ASAP, "I had a dream last night someone tried to burn me alive, and I'm not entirely sure it was a dream." Devon stiffened. Chase's pupils pulsed. Subject successfully changed. "Now who's ready to eat?

Your silence on the issue of people trying to kill you is deeply disturbing.

Caring was dangerous. Caring hurt.

Do you know what I thought when you tried to kill me? The first time? I thought, How can somebody want me dead when no one knows I'm alive?

Hands reached past me to turn on the faucet. I should have jumped. I should have panicked. But somehow, my body relaxed into the person behind me.

Sometimes you have an idea of a person — about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real." He looked at me like the act of soing so was painful and sweet. "It was never just the idea of you, Avery.

The problem was that there was no treatment. No cure. There was nothing that...any medical professional could do. If I'd been fully human, I would have been a dead girl walking....

I had no weapons. No plan. Nothing but my blood and my hands. They were coming, and there were more of them than I'd realized.

Aching for them, I wondered who had made Skye so desperate to be the center of someone's world that she couldn't even love her own children, for fear they wouldn't love her back enough.

But on a more visceral level: I could have died.

No. I couldn't do this, couldn't go down that rabbit hole. Ivy's going to be fine. I'll hate her forever if something happens to her. She's going to be fine.

Grayson wanted me safe, and I wasn't.

The things that haunt us, they make us human.

Funny thing about dying," Bales said, his voice contemplative. "You don't have much to lose.

Mijn vermogen om het bange, weerloze meisje neer te zetten was nu wel verdwenen.

Iemand in deze kamer gaat me oprecht vermoorden.

My right hand holding the blue-green glass, I dropped the towel with my left and reached for him. "Don't," Grayson breathed. He turned to walk past me. "I told you once before, Avery: I'm broken. I won't break you, too. Go back to bed. Forget about that piece of glass and whatever else was in that bag. Stop playing the old man's games"... That felt final in a way that nothing else between us ever had.

No one is going to believe you chickened out of anything," he said. From the way he'd phrased that, you would have thought I was fearless.

I didn't want to think about anything, so I kissed the boy. This time it wasn't rough or frantic. It was gentle and slow and terrifying and perfect . And for once in my life, I didn't feel alone.

Fear does that to a person: shrinks them down, makes them small and weak.

For everyone out there who has the good sense to be a little afraid when swimming in deep, dark water. You tell yourself there's nothing down there, but there is. There always is.

It's not the gun you should be scared of—it's the crazy man with the gun

Oh my God!" Sam said again, his voice shaking. I've given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.

Hattie had learned, over the years, to put her own fears in a box at the back of her mind, to stand tall and brave, to be resilient to whatever enemy presented itself.