Scare Quotes - Page 2

• Dude you scare me sometimes! You're all vampire superwoman

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Vampire, Sometimes, Superwoman

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• I should warn you, I’m an expert on vampires. I’ve seen every episode made of Buffy, Angel, and Forever Knight, so don’t think a little fang-flashing is going to scare me.” – Nell to Adrian Oh, my God! You bit me on the leg! You drank my blood! I am not an appetizer!” You are much more then an appetizer. You are a twelve-course banquet. – Nell & Adrian I slid my tongue around the glossy enamel of his teeth, pausing to stroke down the length of an elongated canine tooth. Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth? – Nell

  Katie MacAlister

  Stupid, Angel, Kissing

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• I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

  Helen Mirren

  Ocean, Water, Doe

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• I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

  Janelle Monae

  Psycho, My Favorite, Hitchcock Movie

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• You mean Teletubbies? (Berith) The fact that you know what they’re called, Berith, truly scares me. (Jericho) As a demon of torture, it behooves me to know all things that are deeply annoying. You’d be amazed how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as Teletubbies. (Berith) Not really. I’d rather battle a brain-eating zombie any day than hear them sing. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, People, Zombie

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• The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, People, Public Trust

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• It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

  Melissa Bank

  Simple, Feelings, Details

  Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.323, Penguin

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• Nothing scares me but God.

  Lil Wayne

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• Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.

  Marian Keyes

  Pissed Off, Said, Ifs

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• I’m just trying to imagine you in flannel pink sock monkey pajamas. I’m sure you look stunning in pink. (Damien) Actually, with his skin tone he probably does look really good in it. I would definitely say he’s an autumn. (Kish) That’s summer, you dweeb. (Damien) I find it fascinating that you two women know that color palettes for clothes have a name. The fact you corrected him really scares me. (Sin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Summer, Autumn, Color

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• You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You upset all the things I believed about myself and made me think in new ways. I know who I used to be, but I’m finally ready to figure out who I am. Cynicism gets tiring, Isabel, and you’ve . . . rested me.And don’t you dare tell me you’ve stopped loving me back, because you’re still a better person than I am, and I’m counting on you to take more care with my heart than I took with yours.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Heart, Thinking, Who I Am

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• My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and fragile and impressionable - and someone else's! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people's babies. It's too much responsibility.

  Margaret Cho

  Mother, Baby, Hate

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• The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, Dancing

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• The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, People, Tea

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• The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a barely perceptible pause. Then two yellow staring eyes materialized in the heart of the smoke. Hey, it was his first time. I wanted to scare him. And it did, too.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Heart, Eye, Clouds

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• No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Eye, Thinking

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.146, Scholastic UK

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• Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud that they will hit you with a laugh that will scare you stiff and yet give you energy. Chennaiites give me the loudest laughs; it's the coolest crowd to perform for.

  Vir Das

  Giving, Laughing, Energy

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• But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Thinking, Brave, Used

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

  Katherine Heigl

  Husband, Doors, Terrible

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• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  E. W. Howe

  Wise, Motivation, Fear

  "The last word on Fear" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 1999.

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• Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Two, Ghost Stories, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Apr 19, 2012

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• I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Artist, Comfort, Horizon

  "Questions and answers with Vanessa Hudgens". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

  Erica Jong

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  "Love Comes First" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2009.

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• In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

  Michio Kaku

  Popcorn, Fiction, Made

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

  Dean Koontz

  Wife, Looks, Literature

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