Quotes About Peril

Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing.

There is nothing more dangerous than a man without a sense of humour.

I thought, Or maybe drowning wasn't as scary as what they had to face every day.

Freon isn't poisonous, Dad." "No. But it will kill you dead, just the same.

The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.

Here, where the body of the mountains pressed so close, Delilah could hear the wicked flexing of rock, as if it cracked its bones in malevolent glee, marking time until it showered the helpless travelers with deadly blades.

If the Pelleth got hold of Shem, they might well eat him alive.

Daniel was in danger, he was sure of it, and Othman was involved.

I can be your ally, Khaster. You should look beneath the surface." Khaster laughed uneasily. "That's a perilous course in Magrast. Sometimes, you find more than you bargained for." "And that's not always a bad thing.

Dino shook his head. "Wherever you go, people drop dead, and women take off their underwear. I don't know how you do either of those things.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff that will be its demise.

Oh the wonders of being married. Put a gun in one hand and a woman in the other, I'm never sure who's going to kill me first.

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

I felt powerless, like a carp on the cutting board ready to be sliced into sashimi.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.

C. S. Lewis, the man who wrote the Narnia books you so loved, once said it is easy to trust a rope as long as you're using it to wrap a box. But when you're clinging to it over a deadly precipice, it's something else entirely.

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself."   —

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

Yorda turned away from the shadow-creature just as its claws were about to close on her shoulders. Her eyes met Ico's, then fell to his outstretched hand. Finally, fear spurred her to action. She ran and jumped.

He's in trouble, Rebecca, genuine, no-fucking-around trouble.

when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography

One's relationship to windows now changed in the city. A window was the border through which death was possibly most likely to come. Windows could not stop even the most flagging round of ammunition: any spot indoors with a view of the outside was a spot potentially in the crossfire. Moreover the pane of a window could itself become shrapnel so easily, shattered by a nearby blast, and everyone had heard of someone or other who had bled out after being lacerated by shards of flying glass.

When information about who is or is not a security threat is a product to be sold as readily as information about who buys Harry Potter books on Amazon or who has taken a Caribbean cruise and might enjoy one in Alaska, it changes the values of a culture. Not only does it create an incentive to spy, torture and generate false information but it creates a powerful impetus to perpetuate the fear and sense of peril that created the industry in the first place.