Quotes About Peril

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

The reprieve doesn't last long though; within a couple of hours the waves are back up to 70 feet. A 70 foot wave has an angled face of well over 100 feet. The Seastate has reached levels that no one on the boat, and few people one earth, have ever seen. When the Contship Holland finally limped into port several days later, one of the officers stepped off and swore he would never set foot on another ship again.

It may be unpleasant, but it's preferable to getting killed.

It's funny how your life can come apart in an instant. How you can feel safe and satisfied one moment, and the next you're dangling over an abyss, no warning, no quarter. You're absolutely about to fall.

Sea fleas," Frank said. "They're everywhere, very wee, practically invisible. They love our bait. If you fell overboard and weren't picked up until the next day, those sea fleas would eat you right up, and your skeleton would sink to the bottom!" Cody lifted me up and hung me over the side. "Want to try it?" he said. "Not funny, Cody," I said. I didn't much like the idea of sea fleas nibbling me down to my bones.

I know that safety is always unattainable. You're never safe.

It wasn't a question of luck, the way some folks will tell you; they will tell you it's back luck to be near the wounded. It was just that we didn't want to be close to them any longer than it took to run past, the way you wouldn't want to be near someone who had something catching, like smallpox

You're cute and smart, and you've gotten everything you've ever asked for, and that makes you lazy and dangerous." "Wow

Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)

You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory)

Please nothing, she's a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)

It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within." – Nick "Guard your back, Nick. It's the one you don't see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It's when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill." – Kyrian

Unsure if she should laugh or groan, Astrid held fast to the tank before her as Zarek pushed the snowmachine to the limits. It vibrated so badly that she half-expected it to disintegrate underneath them.) Cap'n, I don't think she'll hold. The warp engines can't take any more. It's going to blow apart. (Astrid)

So what happened? (Maggie) Nothing major. It's just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren)

What happened? -Ethon Obviously something was hungry and bit the bear. -Kali

Relax, the bad guys don't knock. (Romeo)

Uh, folks, I think that's our boat trying to kill us. (Scott)

Look, there's nothing I'm ever going to tell you about me that's the truth. The more you know about me, the shorter your life span is going to be. All you need to know is that I don't miss. In fact, you don't even need to know exactly how good I really am, because if you ever find out, you're going to be dead. (Steele)

There's nothing more dangerous in this existence than a moron on a mission.

Okay, you're telling the truth. By the way, Nick, you have the most screwed-up life. You're either boring as all get out, or you're about to die. There's no middle ground with you. You might want to work on that.

What is that?" – Abigail "Wasps…A shitload of them." – Sasha

Okay," he said slowly as his ulcer came back with friends. "To certain death, dismemberment, and undignified screams, let us march!

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.