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• They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Helping, Enough

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1251, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Gentleman, Wicked

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• Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Fighting, Men

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Solitude, Madness

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.156, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening".

  Milan Kundera

  Light, Two, Compare

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• So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Shoes, Up Early

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.180, Crown/Archetype

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• Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify myself by gulping down a glass of liquor. The desire to see frightening things—that was what drew me every night to the bar where, like the child who squeezes his pet all the harder when he actually fears it a little, I proclaimed to the customers standing at the bar my drunken, bungling theories of art.

  Osamu Dazai

  Art, Children, Night

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• It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and the fierce and the frightening, lived to the rest pf the non-magical, mortal world.

  Derek Landy

  World, Fierce, Wonderful

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• Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.

  A.C.H. Smith

  Children, Taken, Expectations

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• A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Darkness, Different, Embers

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• Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening.

  Nancy Mitford

  Running, Real, Thinking

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and you turned away from me and cried against your horse. Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don’t you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Horse, Love You

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.278, Penguin

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• It's a frightening world to be alone in.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  World

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book series by Jhonen Vasquez, August 1995 – January 1997.

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• But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.

  Jean Rhys

  Golden Days, Afternoon, Lasts

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• It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Changed, Things You Love, Known

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• I couldn't recall the last time I'd seen that much of him on display. It was wonderful and frightening on the same time. I then said the stupidest thing possible. "You're not scared of anything." "I'm scared of a lot of things. I was scared for you" He released me, and I stepped back. There was still passion and worry written all over him. "I'm not perfect, I'm not invulnerable.

  Richelle Mead

  Passion, Perfect, Worry

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.486, Penguin

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• There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

  Michael Faraday

  Knows

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• I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

  Nikki Giovanni

  I Like You, People, Way

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• Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Different, Elevators, Frightened

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.77, Macmillan

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• It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something. The task is to persevere in my solitude, to stay in my cell until all my seductive visitors get tired of pounding on my door and leave me alone. The wisdom of the desert is that the confrontation with our own frightening nothingness forces us to surrender ourselves totally and unconditionally to the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Jesus, Believe

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• Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself in the form of Shirley Temple as last seen on the 'Good Ship Lollipop'?" The demon twirled around, its big pink sash fluttering as it smoothed down its dress and frilly little petticoat. "My grotesque form isn't making you sick with fright?" We both shook our heads, Noelle with a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing out loud. "Shirley Temple at her pinnacle was frightening," I finally told it, "but not in the sense I think you mean.

  Katie MacAlister

  Mean, Thinking, Hands

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• Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

  Keith Ablow

  Mother, Children, Father

  Keith Ablow (2015). “Compulsion”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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• Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Age, Fourteen

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• Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

  May Sarton

  Real, Believe, Struggle

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

  Harold Pinter

  Life, Fear, Communication

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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