Scared Quotes - Page 35

• For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Long, People, Shadow

  4 Copy quote

• Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

  Rick Riordan

  Sound, Annabeth, Bells

  8 Copy quote

• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.

  Amy Tan

  Strong, Eye, Heart

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.240, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

  Toni Morrison

  Fear, Real, Differences

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.

  Lora Leigh

  Order, Two, Wish

  Lora Leigh (2016). “Wicked Pleasure:”, p.282, St. Martin's Griffin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.

  Rumi

  Running, Safety, Waiting

  6 Copy quote

• When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Inanimate Objects, Chairs

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “Stolen: Number 2 in series”, p.130, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?

  D. J. MacHale

  Confused, People, Dinosaurs

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “The Soldiers of Halla”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It's just an old spirit stuck between the worlds, right? What's to be scared of?"" ~Vic

  Claudia Gray

  Kids, Stories, World

  4 Copy quote

• Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said. Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?" No, I'm just opportunistic." I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great.

  Charlaine Harris

  Eye, Glasses, Mad

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.471, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

  Mark Haddon

  Life, Dark, Moon

  4 Copy quote

• ...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, White Man, Knives

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I scared Stephen King.

  J. K. Rowling

  Kings

  4 Copy quote

• She was scared Unprepared Lost in the dark Falling apart I can't survive Without you by my side We're gonna be alright This is what happens when Two worlds collide.

  Demi Lovato

  Fall, Dark, Two

  4 Copy quote

• So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

  John Green

  Home, Vacation, Pudge

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.65, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

  John Green

  Thinking, Past, Alaska

  5 Copy quote

• "Monkey bars," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and started swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, Monkeys, Way

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

  Frederik Pohl

  Giving Up, Two, Choices

  "Gateway". Book by Frederik Pohl, April 1977.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Want, Pity, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome.

  Rick Riordan

  Dark, Shadow, Faces

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.68, Penguin UK

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.

  David Wroblewski

  Fear, Eye, Matter

  8 Copy quote

• But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.

  Nick Hornby

  Distance, School, Home

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.232, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn’t get her cutting at all. She’d done it sporadically, ever since the accident and it scared me each time. She'd try to explain it to me, how she didn't want to die—she just needed to get it out somehow. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet—physical pain—was the only way to make the internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Cutting, Going Away

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.90, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.

  Sylvia Browne

  War, Tired, Thinking

  Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison (2010). “End Of Days: Predictions and prophecies about the end of the world”, p.6, Hachette UK

  8 Copy quote

  Show source