Scared Quotes - Page 38

• She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.

  Tim Bowler

  Decision, Doing Nothing, Achieve

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• He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Suffering, Jelly

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• I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that’s just my day, not my week.

  Rachel Caine

  Vampire, Spiders, Bombs

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.1661, Penguin

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• I'm scared. What will tomorrow bring? It has to be better than today. It has to.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Today, Tomorrow, Tomorrow Brings

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• In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Wall, Fall

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.38, HarperCollins

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• I felt excited to go to school, and that scared me. I knew it wasn't the simulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends. If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Culllen. And that was very, very stupid.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stupid, School, Honest

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• I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

  Ann Brashares

  Mean, Knowing, Way

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.415, Delacorte Press

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• Safe is just another word for scared.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Safe

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• That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

  Nicholas Sparks

  Safe Haven, Needs, Firsts

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

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• Don't be scared. I'll look after you.

  Erin Hunter

  Looks

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• Da, hes waiting for me to tell the two of you our news first, then he'll join me." He cocked a dark brow at her. "And why would he not come to your mother and me first and ask permission to handfast with you, as is the honorable thing to do?" She cocked her own brow, mirroring his expression perfectly. "Because he's not stupid. Anyone with any sense would be scared of you two. But even scared to death, he wanted to come with me. I wouldn't let him. I knew I needed to talk to you alone first.

  P. C. Cast

  Mother, Stupid, Dark

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• I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Forever, Everyday

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• I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be. You’re scared of black magic. I can see fear shimmering under your aura like sweat. I live and breathe black magic. I’m so tainted with it that I will use it without thought, without guilt and without hesitation.

  Kim Harrison

  Sweat, Worst Nightmares, Black

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• The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.

  Tamora Pierce

  Fear, Sleep, Dark

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Circle Opens #03”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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• I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Stupid, Long, Done

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.92, Scholastic UK

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• Why does anyone lie? 'Cause we're scared or crazy, maybe just because we're mean. I guess there's a million reason to lie, and I might've told that many...but none like that. I guess there's always that one lie we never get over. What? Oh, maybe you don't know about it yet. Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do...and if you get lucky...you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it's gone. And it never comes back again.

  Billie Letts

  Crazy, Lying, Mean

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• The best client is a scared millionaire.

  H. L. Mencken

  Clients, Millionaire

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• I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down. "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave." "Scave." Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny.

  Emma Donoghue

  Fall, Thinking, Laughing

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• Is this what it means to die? Lucas thought. Because I’m not scared of it anymore. Not if it means I finally get this close to you.

  Claudia Gray

  Mean, Dies, Ifs

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• I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

  Melina Marchetta

  States, Yearning

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• ...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

  Brad Meltzer

  Past, Thinking

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.250, Hachette UK

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• Dimitri: "I also have a feeling your mother's going to have one ugly conversation with me." Rose: "You're about to go face down Strigoi, and my mother's the one you're scared of?" Dimitri: "She's a force to be reckoned with. Where do you think you got it from?" Rose: "It's a wonder you bother with me then." Dimitri: "You're worth it, believe me.

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• Scared ya, did I? Aw, that's sweet. Don't worry the shocks won't kill me," she whispered. "They only make me stronger. Anyway, it was worth it to give that cow a black eye, ya know?

  Lauren Kate

  Sweet, Eye, Giving

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.51, Delacorte Press

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• I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only one mode... pissed off. In reality, he had plenty of them. Over the past few weeks, I’d learned to tell the difference between real pissed off, impatient pissed off and scared pissed off. I suspected that this was the last kind. If so, that made two of us.

  Karen Chance

  Real, Past, Differences

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.681, Penguin

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• But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

  Ken Kesey

  Real, Men, Doors

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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