Quotes About Peril

Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

Beauty,' Brimstone had scoffed once. 'Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.

It had worked. She understood. Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer and longer.

Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers.

If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.

Having hope was like dangling himself over a chasm and putting the rope in her hands. She could annihilate him if she wanted to.

Who's there?" he called, then frowned. "Of course," he added, addressing the darkness all around, "even I, as a Shadowhunter, have seen enough movies to know that anyone who yells 'Who's there?' is going to be instantly killed.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

Magic is dangerous - but love is more dangerous still

Sometimes you don't have to search out danger, sometimes danger finds you

I am so screwed.

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.

Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.

children are often hypervigilant, for they feel themselves to be ceaselessly in peril. And they've learned to sense threats; their life often depends on it.

Sometimes we think we know what to fear. We never turn our back on it. Then something else we never thought of comes along. I wonder if what finally caught her in the end was something she feared all that time, or something she never would have thought of.

The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.

Henry looked around the rocky top of the mountain. He did not want to frighten the girls, but he knew that the only way down was gone. The rocky sides of Old Flat Top gave no spot to get a foothold.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

Watson in the nineties has been like English cricket in the nineties: an accident waiting to happen.

In the words of one security expert, Johannes Beck, "There are always cracks in a suit of armor. A terrorist only has to succeed once but security or counter-terrorist agencies whose task it is to prevent the terrorists have to succeed all the time.