Scared Quotes - Page 34

• I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

  Libba Bray

  Stranger, I Can, Obedient

  Libba Bray (2009). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

  Alice Walker

  Stars, Disappointment, Heart

  "Anything We Love Can Be Saved". Book by Alice Walker, June, 1997.

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• I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Home, Tired

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Two, Coward

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• Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Hurt, Heart

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 12, 2014

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• Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?

  George Saunders

  Mom, Baby, Jesus

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• Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

  Ann Brashares

  Soup, Carrots, Made

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• I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Forever, Hot

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Night, Magic

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• I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Hurt, Children, Love You

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• He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.

  John Bellairs

  Men, Dwarves, Littles

  John Bellairs, Edward Gorey, Mercer Mayer (1998). “The best of John Bellairs”

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• We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

  Dean Koontz

  Born

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• Dally was so real he scared me.

  S. E. Hinton

  Real

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.65, Penguin

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• I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

  Truman Capote

  Knowing, Forever, Goes On

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• I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

  Meg Rosoff

  Ghost, Pipers, Frightened

  Meg Rosoff (2005). “How I Live Now”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Baby, Hurt, Growing Up

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Little Earthquakes”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to a trickle of blood from my nose, sometimes I wake scared and shaking. I read, go to museums and visit Lilly in the afternoon. Sometimes I read to her, sometimes I talk to her, sometimes I just sit and remember the times, remember the times, remember the times." (James Frey, pg.119)

  James Frey

  Dream, Drinking, Sleep

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.84, Penguin

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• He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Boys, Men, Worry

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• Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

  Alice Walker

  People, Cotton, Claims

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

  Deb Caletti

  Weed, Mother, Fate

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• Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Sometimes, Contagious

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.115, A&C Black

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• Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

  Avril Lavigne

  Care, Causes, Should

  Song: Losing Grip, Album: Let Go

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• Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Looks, Pages

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on its axis but they say you don't feel it, you can't experience it. But to feel it is to be scared and happy at once and to know that nothing matters but that you do what you want to do and what you do you are. And I knew I was moving into the future. There is not PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or ever to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Moving, Past, Axes

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• But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

  Joni Mitchell

  Real, Feels, Knows

  Song: Willy

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