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Quotes About Peril

There was a crack of thunder so loud I was convinced I'd been struck by lightning for lying.
~ Connie Willis
He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death
~ Cormac McCarthy
That the boy was all that stood between him and death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
los sueños correctos para un hombre en peligro eran sueños de peligro y que lo demás era sólo la llamada de la languidez y de la muerte.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it's all that more likely it'll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Imperilment is bottomless. As long as you are breathing you can always be more scared.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Non voglio fare nessuna promessa, disse. È così che si finisce per farsi male
~ Cormac McCarthy
the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He mistrusted all of that. He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
El malpaís. Era un laberinto. Subías a toda prisa un pequeño promontorio y de repente te veías rodeado de grietas tan profundas que no te atrevías a saltarlas. Los bordes de cristal negro y puntiagudo y abajo puntiagudas rocas de sílex (...) Donde que nosotros sepamos está localizado el infierno
~ Cormac McCarthy
I dont think people are wrong to be concerned about the world's intentions toward them. There's a lot of bad news out there and some of it is coming to your house. Drowning
~ Cormac McCarthy
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
~ Cornelia Funke
Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.
~ Cornelia Funke
It must be a dangerous world." Meggie was trying to imagine it all: the giants, the trolls, and the fairies. Mo had once given her a book about fairies. Dustfinger shrugged. "Yes, it's dangerous, so what? This world's dangerous, too, isn't it?
~ Cornelia Funke
As your trusted Indian scout, it is important for me to warn you that you are now on perilously thin ice
~ Craig Johnson
He says he comes in peace, said Hiccup He's still going to kill us, though.
~ Cressida Cowell
Uh-oh, thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. This person wants to kill me.
~ Cressida Cowell
Sometimes, when I lie awake at night," said Wish, with big eyes, "I think I can hear, beyond the Wall, the sound of giants howling, as if they're being attacked by Witches… Don't you hear that, Bodkin? Are we supposed to just stay here, safe behind our Wall, and let that carry on?
~ Cressida Cowell
The Witch had been aiming straight for her head, intending to tear it off. (Dear little creatures, these Witches, aren't they?)
~ Cressida Cowell
She thought it might have been his thought that wakened her, as he crept toward the solitary holding; she thought that the danger in his thoughts had reached out to awaken her as surely as an alarm bell ringing out across the night.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!
~ D.J. MacHale
I'm going into battle, hope I don't get hit. Lord if your listening, get me out of this shit.
~ Walter Dean Meyers