Quotes About Skittishness

Black wanted to discuss everything that had since been green-lighted, but most of it remained classified. He could only hint at the magnitude of the problems caused by skittishness among policy makers—and their recent conversion to born-again belligerence in the war on terror.

Her skittishness was starting to irritate him. But then, it was typical. Women found him frightening, and he'd long since given up trying to be anything but what the world thought him to be: a devil. A monster. After all, his own mother had taught him he was something to be feared and loathed. She'd been terrified of him.