Quotes About Peril

The Wood knew I was here: even now its creatures were moving towards me, stealthy padding feet through the forest, walkers and wolves and worse things still. I suddenly was sure that there were things that never left the Wood at all, things so dreadful no one had ever seen them. And they were coming.

There's something nearby," she said. "Something up ahead." The captain heard her and glanced back. "Something dangerous?" "Something dead," Kasia said, and dropped her eyes to her saddle, her hands clenched on the reins.

There are people we have never seen who are busy thinking up things we should be worried about.

Any of them could have a disaster before the school year is over. You could have a disaster an hour from now. Bending over. Something could hit you. People carry guns in glove compartments and lunch boxes. Cars spin out of control in minor drizzle. The more you know, really, the more you have to worry and fret about. It's a miracle anyone can sleep at all.

It is the hand of God and the lack of fire escapes

Es como la marea, ¿sabe usted?—decía, ido—. La barbarie, digo. Se va y uno se cree a salvo, pero siempre vuelve, siempre vuelve... y nos ahoga.

Là où il y a un troupeau d'agneaux, finissent toujours par apparître des loups affamés.

If you don't look for Trouble, how can you know it's there?

He wondered exactly how lost a person could get. Lost at sea, lost in the woods. Fatally lost.

Nancy had no chance to reply. Suddenly there was a tremendous explosion, and in an instant the lovely white house on the hillside burst into flames! Tongues of fire leaped from the windows and doors.

Cautiously the girls moved forward, flashing their lights over the half-rotted flooring. The water was lapping against the posts of the building. Giant, eerie shadows leaped at them as they flashed their lights into every corner. The beam from Nancy's came to rest on an old overturned rowboat against the wall. From its stern protruded a pair of bare feet, bound with rope.

Don't go looking for trouble; it's already looking for you.

Los muertos enterrados no me daban miedo. Los vivos y los no muertos eran mucho más peligrosos.

Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too!

Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.

she was ethereally lovely, with a kind of deadly edge. the deadly edge was what a person shouldn't forget.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.

A little hole in the ship sinks it. A small breach in a dyke carries away all before it. A little stab at the heart kills a man. A little sin, without a great deal of mercy, will damn a man!

Literature has its own logic; it is not life. Not only that, but (and this is key): characters are not people... and we forget that at our peril.

How could I be expected to know? I was a child when I left this house four months ago. Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way, and you did not help me!

Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o' learning in that way, and you did not help me!

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