Frightened Quotes - Page 27

• I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened little me had always wondered how to swim through the vast ocean, but you didn't even want a ship. You wanted wings. I thought you were amazing.

  Arina Tanemura

  Ocean, Wings, Numbers

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• A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.

  Patricia Briggs

  Girl, Evil, Drug

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.288, Penguin

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• I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Love You, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Songmaster”, p.9, Macmillan

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• In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Might, Prozac Nation

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was one of the best days of his life and then he took out his gun. A .22 rifle. And he leaned forward and whispered, "Forgive me, Taylor Markham." Before I could ask how he knew my name and what I was to forgive him for he said, "Take care of my little girl." And then he told me to close my eyes. And I've been frightened to do just that ever since.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Dream, Eye

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• It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.

  J.R. Ward

  Might, Realizing, Odd

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.190, Penguin

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• When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.

  Jane Green

  Girl, Independent, Insecure

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• You sleep like an angel" Jacks said. The shock of his words in the dark room sent Maddy's stomach leaping into her throat. She didn't even realize she had screamed until it came out of her mouth. "Don't be frightened," Jacks said, sounding worried. "It's just me. I'm sorry, I so didn't mean for that to sound creepy. Let me start over.

  Scott Speer

  Sorry, Angel, Mean

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• Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sunrise, Consciousness

  Allen Ginsberg (1972). “The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971: Pocket Poets Number 30”, p.154, City Lights Books

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• We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

  Thomas Harris

  Heart, Short Notice, Cafes

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan

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• For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Children, Twilight, Prejudice

  "The Twilight Zone (The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. March 4, 1960.

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• She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

  J. K. Rowling

  World, Might, Oddness

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• We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

  Justin Torres

  Animal, Hitting, Littles

  Justin Torres (2012). “We the Animals”, p.45, Granta Books

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• I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

  Nick Bantock

  Mistake, Thinking, Offering

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• [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Writing, Want, Obscure

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Drinking, Airports, News Stories

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• Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.

  Roger Waters

  Running, Fall, Brave New World

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• Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Money, Men, Problem

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?

  Richard Wright

  Heart, Men, Civilization

  Richard Wright (1953). “The Outsider”, New York : Harper

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• You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.' Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I was very frightened.' You risked your life.' But I didn't even think about that! I was only thinking of-' He interrupted her,smiling. 'That's all that brave means-not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do. So did I.

  Lois Lowry

  Mean, Thinking, Hands

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• People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

  David Sedaris

  Paris, People, Critics

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

  Amy Tan

  Betrayal, Years, Piano

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• Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Self, Order

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Fear, Men, Should

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