Quotes About Fear

When your heart aches with love, just the fear of having it thrust away is enough to frighten the boldest from spilling their simple truth.

He found himself thinking, Paul is going to kill me. I'm thinking carnal thoughts about the maid of honor and how to get her out of this pink dress and Paul is going to kill me. But I will die happy, he further thought. He

Listen, I know your emotions are all over the place—bad divorce, ugly legal problems, major pregnancy… Abby, I love you. I'm not just a guy under the same blanket with a girl. If it wasn't you, this wouldn't be happening. God, I hope that doesn't scare you away." "Is

Terrified to touch that emergency money she had stowed away, she was stretching her money as far as it would go—rent for Penny took the top position because she was certain the elderly darling needed it. Plus, she needed a place to live while she starved to death.

Tell me your secrets. Tell me when you were most afraid.

If he was going to be a father he would be an involved father. He was more than committed to taking on little Matt and he hoped…no, he prayed, Vanni could accept his child as part of the package. But he had no idea how to go about telling her. Vanni scared him to death. She had a helluva temper. It

Paige looked up at him, smiled sweetly, and it made him feel all soupy inside. Her eyes were so sad, so scared. She couldn't help it, he understood that. If it weren't for the fear, he might actually take her hand to give her courage—but she wasn't just afraid of whoever did that to her. She was afraid of everything, including him.

She briefly covered his hand atop the bar with hers, and a sizzle shot through him at her merest touch. Damn, he thought, I'm in serious trouble. He wasn't sure what he feared most: never having more of her or repercussions from the general if he ever did.

I don't really want to leave the house. I'll have to find a way to change that soon, but for now, I just want to feel safe. That's a tall enough order.

Because sometimes it is as bad as you fear, or even worse. And sometimes you have to do it anyway, because the kind of life you're left with if you don't isn't really of the same value.

I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks

To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. It is not safe. I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, and

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

It was like trying to hand-feed a grizzly bear.

It's like . . . I'm paranoid about people borrowing my laptop because I'm convinced they'll find some secret document on there that would make the whole world think I'm a terrible person—something I don't even remember writing. And it doesn't matter that there's no document like that. I'm still terrified, you know?

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her, because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

No one wants to get hurt." " Well, maybe not, but sometime's it's worth it.

I just hadn't wanted to admit it, because admitting it meant acknowledging the possibility that the odds might be in my favor. And that possibility was terrifying.

People are afraid of us. We're their monsters. Except they're the ones who are afraid of what they don't understand. They're the ones who ruin everything.

Grief is a strange thing. I'd thought, for the longest time, that being at Latham was a constant grieving for an answer. Live or die. Return home or succumb. But it wasn't grief at all. It was fear.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her, because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

A beginning of an unfinished conversation that I didn't have the guts to take control of.

Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me," Phoebe said. "But the only thing Luke's afraid of losing is power.

Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me," Pheobe said