Quotes About Fear

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80 000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

When the doorbell rings at three o'clock in the morning its never good news

If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.

You must control your emotions. You must control your feelings. If there is any fear or insecurity, you must destroy it before it destroys you. It is not the size or the strength of your opponent that matters. These can be measured. It is what cannot be measured...courage, determination...that count.

WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

Give him his due: this is a man who has always faced his fears square on, whether they be a deadly swamp adder, a hideous poison that might drive you to insanity or a hell-hound set loose on the moors. Holmes has done many things that are, frankly, baffling – but he has never run away.

And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.

the covers, I tried to persuade myself that everything would be all right. It was the beginning of the longest night of my life. I took off my outer clothes and lay down on the second bunk but I couldn't sleep. I was frightened that the fire would go out. I was

Alex felt the bullets pass over his shoulder and heard a scream as one of the other guards was hit. Well, that made one less anyway!

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. Alex Rider was woken by the first chime. His eyes flickered open, but for a moment he stayed completely still in his bed, lying on his back with his head resting on the pillow.

WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. Alex

He had discovered the secret of war, the moment when soldiers cast aside their fear and become part of a machine that is so much bigger than themselves. For only then are they prepared to die.

Just remember,Alex Rider,you're never too young to die.

Alex knew he was in danger the same way an animal does. There was no need to ask why or how. Danger was simply there.

There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we're so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that's how it is. It's why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring.

if Cray leaves a kitchen knife lying around, I'm going to shove it somewhere painful…

They were an audience … perhaps even a jury. My stomach was still churning. I felt like the condemned man.

I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

There aren't many people who can say they have shot the Devil.

He once said to me that it was like being in one of those Russian prisons where they lock you up without telling you the length of your sentence.

them cradling automatic machine guns. Mrs. Stellenbosch

I didn't believe her. There was a nervousness in her eyes. I'd seen it when she held out the telephone for Damian. She'd been afraid he was going to snatch it from her. In fact, she was probably afraid of Damian.

I felt completely out of my depth. There were so many questions I wanted to ask him but at the same time I was afraid of offending him.

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.