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• At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

  Sharon Stone

  Going Away, Firsts, Fame

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• There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Track, Paper

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• Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you’ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.

  C.C. Hunter

  Ends, Wells

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.213, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loss, Caring, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to you." "I won't." "Make them work for it. Punch someone if you have to." John gives me a sad, crooked smile. "You're a scary kid. So scare them. Okay? All the way until the end." For the first time in a long time, I feel like a little brother. I have to swallow hard to keep my eyes dry. "Okay," I whisper.

  Marie Lu

  Brother, Kids, Eye

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• My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity is not helping. It's just an excuse for my hair to let its frizz flag fly.

  Susane Colasanti

  Hair, Flags, Saws

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.17, Penguin

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• How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and fences can be mirrors. And between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors. This is why the whole thing is scary. This why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary. See yourself in your opponents. They will bring you to understand the Game. To accept the fact that the Game is about managed fear. That its object is to send from yourself what you hope will not return.

  David Foster Wallace

  Running, Mirrors, Games

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.

  Eoin Colfer

  Sound, Butlers

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• But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love, Forever, Lust

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Cutting, Night, Together

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.418, Vintage

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• I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon.

  Jay Asher

  Hurt, Thinking, Talking

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Penguin

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• Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

  Nora Roberts

  Pain, Risk, Nerves

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.129, Penguin

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• Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

  Rod Serling

  Ideas, Earth, Twilight Zone

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• If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

  Lisa Jewell

  Destiny, Together Again, Two

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• A scary but yet beautiful smile

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Beautiful, Beautiful Smile

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• Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?

  Mira Grant

  Suicide, Sound, Mosquitoes

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.

  Tonya Hurley

  Eye, Ideas, Knowing

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

  Guillaume Musso

  Balance, Life Is, Complicated

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• The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dark, Evil, Way

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.151, Penguin

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• You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Abandon

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

  Richard Russo

  Leaving, Easier, Staying

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• It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

  Chris Crutcher

  Moving, Thinking, Wish

  Chris Crutcher (1995). “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes”, Laurel Leaf

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• The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.

  Rick Riordan

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• My tiny scary friend is coming

  Laini Taylor

  Tiny

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• There's nothing as scary as the future.

  John Irving

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.209, Random House

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