Scared Quotes - Page 32

• Whatever's happening," she said, eventually, "it can all be sorted out." She saw the expression on my face then, worried. Scared even. And she said, "After pancakes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Expression, Pancakes, Faces

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• Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, Light, Doors

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." “I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining her on the lower stairs. “Way worse.” “Oh, not the attack.” Bex raised her finger in contradiction. “What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn’t think you were going to have one.

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Two, Joining

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• ...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

  David Levithan

  Dream, Kissing, Boys

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.112, Egmont UK

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• We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.

  Derek Landy

  Upset, Needs, Asking

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• So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

  Holly Black

  Hate, Admitting, World

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• Arms wrapped around his neck, she kissed his temple. "I'm sorry I scared you." It wasn't the done thing for an archangel to admit fear, but he was hers, and she'd hurt him without meaning to; it was up to her to fix her mistake. His wings shifted, but he didn't extricate their bodies. "I didn't know fear until you, Elena. Use the power wisely.

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Sorry, Mistake

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.34, Penguin

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• Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

  Richard Siken

  Want

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• I’m not a violent person, Sydney. Not at all. I’ll make love over war any day. But I swear, if they’d hurt you—” “They didn’t,” I said firmly. I refused to let him know how scared I’d been because I was afraid he might go after them. “I’m fine. You came to the rescue.” A smile played at his lips. “Something tells me you would’ve rescued yourself.” And like that, the smile vanished. “But spirit would’ve been a lot more effective than a branch.” “Your treejitsu was very effective.

  Richelle Mead

  Hurt, War, Making Love

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• Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

  Daniel Handler

  Inspiration, Scary, Firsts

  "When Did You See Her Last?". Book by Daniel Handler, October 15, 2013.

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• Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

  William Faulkner

  Courage, Hurt, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.364, Vintage

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• The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands. The world is drowning in religion. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that takes the world home gratis.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Mean, Responsibility, Passion

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• I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Single, Parent, House

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• Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Regret, Business, Intimate Relationships

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.130, Penguin

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• I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Courage, Adversity, Humility

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• Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Men, Sight

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• I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Everyday, Uniforms

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• I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Rapper, America

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• I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

  Kanye West

  Music, Numbers, Trying

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• When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Believe, Choices, Identity

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• I used to be scared of loosing you and it happened just as I had thought. I wonder if you ever feel hurt about having lost the love we had. Do you feel the pain that I feel?

  Ron Miles

  Hurt, Pain, Lost Love

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• Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

  Edward Hoagland

  Cancer, Heart, Suicidal

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Elephants, Feet

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• I hear them mumblin, I hear the cacklin I got em scared, shook, panickin

  Nicki Minaj

  Bad Ass, Ems, Ass

  Song: Roman's Revenge

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• We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.

  Bob Bourne

  Hate, Hockey, Winning

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