Quotes About Peril

She knew she was going to drop it. Was sure she was going to drop it, so to make sure she didn't, pretended she was carrying a little baby sister across a river filled with alligators. If she dropped her end of the crate, her sister, her dear little sister, her sick little sister, would fall into the water below and be eaten alive.

Latia returned, coming around the curve and stepping through the glass. Yes, it's our path, she reported. And it seems to be near the ogre fen. Oh? How do you know? Esk asked. Oh, nothing specific. Trees twisted into pretzels, boulders cracked with hairy fist marks on them, dragons slinking about as if terrified of anything on two legs. Perhaps I am mistaken.

Solo i sobbalzi del vagone ci impedivano di scivolare in un sonno che il freddo avrebbe reso mortale.

Los monstruos existen pero son demasiado pocos para ser realmente peligroso; más peligrosos son los hombres comunes, los funcionarios dispuestos a creer y obedecer sin discutir...

If we confuse legalism and discipline, we do so to our soul's peril.

You won't be going home tonight - or ever, Trevor whispered. You've seen too much.

You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies." Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries.

I'm saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It's going to take us a miracle to get through this." Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. "At least they're getting more polite when they try to kill us," Shane said.

Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn't even be rude to evil vampires who'd caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason.

at least this way we're safe in a room with a door that locks. And the sign says they have HBO. That stands for Horrible Bloody Ohmygod. Eve said. which is the way they kill you. When you think you're safe.

Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.

There's no time in a woman's life that isn't dangerous, and that's just a fact of life.

Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease.

The stairs creaked. They always creaked when creaking could lead to your death, and they never creaked when creaking didn't matter.

It's a war. Mistake a war for an adventure, you won't live long.

expect you'll have a fatal accident before you ever get into a courtroom

When danger can be sensed but not identified, then everyone and everything becomes a source of concern; the world from horizon to horizon seems hostile.

no one would believe the goblins were eventually going to attempt to kill her.

if he had been foolish enough to trust the media to help him blow the whistle, he would be dead by now.

Some are street thugs who will kill you for the contents of your wallet or merely for the thrill of it.

Libby, we've got to get out of here, off the island.

Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.