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Quotes About Peril

Her mother couldn't read. Her mother hadn't noticed the signs of a bad winter. Cian wasn't even there. Hereswith was far away, and Fursey. She had taken a double risk and there was no one to help her.
~ Nicola Griffith
Korku vebadan da tehlikelidir ve göz aç?p kapayana kadar yay?l?r.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
~ Octavia Butler
People who are intelligent, ambitious, and at the same time, in the grip of odd obsessions can be dangerous.
~ Octavia E. Butler
We were interrogated as if we had murdered the Commandant with our own hands. Luckily
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Nothing was so hard for me to understand, so baffling, and at the same time so filled with menacing overtones as the commonplace remark, "Human beings work to earn their bread, for if they don't eat, they die.
~ Osamu Dazai
I look upward ignorantly but reverently at the white host of heaven. Even the astronomer who peers through the magic glasses must go in peril of losing his mysterious awe in a tangle of mathematical calculations.
~ Unknown
Do not forecast where the temptation will come; it is the least likely thing that is the peril. In the aftermath of a great spiritual transaction the "retired sphere of the leasts" begins to tell; it is not dominant, but remember it is there, and if you are not warned, it will trip you up.
~ Oswald Chambers
You think that you can walk on water Better be careful, it gets mighty deep
~ Pat Benatar
People who say that vampires don't care about anyone except themselves are mostly right—but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.
~ Patricia Briggs
When things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. That way, when you stupidly got yourself killed, someone would have a starting place to look for your murderer.
~ Patricia Briggs
Just because something is dangerous does not make it evil. (Adam)
~ Patricia Briggs
Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter.
~ Patricia Briggs
Unlike human fights -- or even werewolf fights -- vampire fights could take a long time. Not breathing, not needing a beating heart meant that a vampire was dangerous long after a werewolf would be unconscious. It takes a great deal of damage to make a vampire lose consciousness.
~ Patricia Briggs
But how did—" Shiara stopped because Telemain was stirring. A moment later he opened his eyes and looked up at all of us. "What was that?" he asked rather hazily. "That," said Morwen, "was a sword. They are long, pointed, and very sharp. You're lucky it didn't take your head off.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Friends can feel such things in times of peril, as if a long, thin string holds them carefully together, tugging at one another through the open space of a dangerous world. The
~ Patrick Carman
It is not her you need saving from, it said.
~ Patrick Ness
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Wilem looked at me 'Why are you smiling?' "I'm relieved",I said honestly." I was worried I had given myself cadmium poisoning, or had a mysterious disease.This is just someone trying to kill me.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even killed something that could have been either a dragon or a demon, depending on your point of view. But there in that room was the first time I actually felt like any sort of hero. If you are looking for a reason for the man I would eventually become, if you are looking for a beginning, look there.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that, mixed with self recrimination and the fear of death.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He felt himself go cold as he suddenly realized what a dangerous game he was playing. So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Remember: there are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man." The
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Remember: there are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
~ Patrick Rothfuss