Quotes About Peril

Please...they'll kill me. I'll kill you...worry about me.

Okay," I said, clasping her hand. "I swear it. The next time I do something stupid that might get me killed, you can come along.

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

If they'd had proof of what he'd tried to do, Porfirio wouldn't have lived long enough to die in an explosion.

Something's happened. Something involving danger and death and all that other stuff you like.

She was like a tropical flower in this dark, stuffy room. One that could kill you.

Not sure I would've been alive for their rescue if you hadn't set that bitch on fire. How did you do that?

For all the peril they faced, Leonard and Scott retained their British calm, sounding like two gentlemen discussing the weather.

the world is a scary place for such a small child

what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the entire world—hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles.

It's worse than that, William! It's diabolical! Do you know what this means? It means that decent folk like you and me can't even go out and have a little fun at night without risking a broken leg or arm. We might even break our necks!

You'd have been fossilized with fear and glued to the ground! Then they'd have got you! You'd have been a cooked cucumber! You'd have been rasped into a thousand tiny bits, grated like cheese and flocculated alive! They'd have made necklaces from your knucklebones and bracelets from your teeth!

There wasn't any way to be safe; just being alive was deadly dangerous...fatal, in the end.

when you hear the bullet before you hear the gun, you are on the wrong end of the firing.

danger is no novelty.

The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and

Silly human is trying to get himself killed. Zoltan turned toward the voice but saw only a dog resting on a porch a few houses down the road.

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.

Konopac koji te spasi od poplave može ti postati om?a oko vrata.

It was like waking up one morning and finding that a wild animal has wandered into your house. No place felt safe to me.

La corda che ti salva dall'inondazione può diventare un cappio attorno al collo.

This is about Ku'Sox, isn't it," I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. "Then you've met," he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. "Funny, you don't look dead." His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I'd been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. "I'm surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn't.

If an ocean can be vanquished, Folsom asked, is any place safe?