danger

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
6394972	The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.	chinese crisis danger inspirational opportunity	John F. Kennedy
9d6e736	Love is a dangerous angel.	danger love	Francesca Lia Block
a480f58	You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.	danger life	Jeannette Walls
6cec52d	Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?	danger reading	Jeanette Winterson
f7fa717	There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.	cowardice danger destruction fault general homer lead reckless shame temper trouble war worry	Sun Tzu
f12d3ef	Things change when you're not in danger anymore.	change danger life	Mitch Albom
dc8d582	It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.	colonizer danger fear folly humanity humans madness mind-control nuclear-bomb nuclear-threat nuclear-weapons truth white whiteness	Arundhati Roy
5eb28f2	...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.	bond danger relaxation	Ian Fleming
a10b283	News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.	danger worry	Patricia C. Wrede
292cfbd	Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.	danger emotion planning	Barbara W. Tuchman
103bb4b	a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.	danger human-nature	Orson Scott Card
d35a651	The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.	danger death fear strength	Toni Morrison
062d07d	"What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had! "I wish I knew!" thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, "Nothing, just now." "Think again," it said: "that won't do." Alice thought, but nothing came of it. "Please, would you tell me what you call yourself?" she said timidly, "I think that might help a little." "I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further on," the Fawn said. "I can't remember here." So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of delight. "And dear me, you're a human child!" A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed."	danger deer fawn fear innocence instinct purity survival wonderland	Lewis Carroll
dea26fc	Tradition was safety; change was danger.	danger safety tradition	Mary Doria Russell
10c2a5f	"Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it's obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scientifiction, I regret the lack of any female writers but only Radclyffe Hall opened my eyes outside sci-fi.	atheist belief danger fairy-tales hope humanist morality respect sci-fi science science-fiction secular utopia	Forrest J. Ackerman
bf0c71f	Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.	danger journey	Tahir Shah
fd3c002	I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.	danger divorce failure journey reflection	Craig Ferguson
dca010a	Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.	clancy courage danger fear man	Tom Clancy
f5e8a7f	As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.	bravery courage danger faith fear pain peace peace-of-mind road walk	Madeleine L'Engle
0a100fd	... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.	danger peril	Herman Melville
49f69a5	sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilderness she can enter be solaced believing the power that there be sacred place that there can be atonement now she returns with no fear facing the past ready to risk knowing these woods now hold beauty and danger	danger rain woods	Bell Hooks
99fbebe	I don't like this war. I don't like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the grumbling and the jealousies and the pettishness in the middle. I hate the lack of gallantry and grace; the self-seeking; the destruction of valuable people and things. I believe in danger and endeavor as a form of tempering but I reject it if this is the only shape it can take.	danger endeavor gallantry grace war	Dorothy Dunnett
a11f669	Courage is the antidote to danger.	danger	Erle Stanley Gardner
6569628	"If you're in trouble, I swear I will never stop until I get to you," he called softly. Sage could've pretended she was already gone, but she couldn't leave without answering. "I know."	danger kickass-heroine mary-e-pearson smart-heroine tamora-pierce ya-espionage-spy-thriller ya-romance	Erin Beaty
b91fb4f	In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.	danger harm protection travel	Tahir Shah
a02321e	Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.	danger irony	Khaled Hosseini
3f5dfbb	Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous--dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say.	danger ideas morality	James Baldwin
f7c52ca	Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.	danger fear ghost-stories	Lois Lowry
2c42f82	The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.	danger internet physicality reality truth web	Margaret Atwood
4a5a76d	...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become	change danger fear heart love outcome realization realize result risk see soul threaten truth understand worry	Robin Hobb
c321e55	The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.	awaiting aware awareness banish cheap-optimism cowardice danger dangers food human-beings humanity instinct nonexistent optimism self-deception supper unwelcome warning	Stefan Zweig
7723526	Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.	danger dangerous-people	Robin Maxwell
37f8daa	Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.	children danger safety	Paul Murray
fb3f13c	You've never been the safe, nice girl next door, despite everything you do to be that person. That's why you joined the I.S., and even there you didn't fit in, because, knowing it or not, you were a possible threat to everyone around you. People sense it on some level. I see it all the time. The dangerous are attracted by the lure of an equal, and the weak are afraid. Then they avoid you, or go out of their way to make your life miserable so you'll leave and they can continue deluding themselves that they're safe. (...) You got off on the risk.	danger fit risk threat	Kim Harrison
bc99bb1	Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.	danger dread	Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
d31ec3f	I touch the double row of silver hoop earrings hanging from his left ear, trail along his jawline, his neck, down his shoulder, to the flaming tail of the dragon on his arm. He leans into the caress, and my own body feels on fire with the continued way his eyes gaze upon me. The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now--inside and out--all I see is beauty.	danger earrings isaiah rachel-young tattoos touch	Katie McGarry
52674ec	As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code.	danger	Tahir Shah
baeb2d7	To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it's a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed.	danger killing lions	Beryl Markham
7e61195	I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, 'The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.' I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?	censorship danger reading sedition	Jeanette Winterson
a122a35	"People should be more careful about what they read to their kids," Park said. "Some of this stuff sounds dangerous."	danger dangerous kids read	Jennifer Crusie
5058335	There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.	child children danger demand equal kid little much require risk show teach young youth	Robin Hobb
45b8dd8	Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.	danger lenin russian-revolution	Orlando Figes
ca225a2	Why do we live in Spooksville? It's not just because our families live here. It's because this is a place of adventure. The unknown surrounds us every time we leave our homes. I know what I'm doing is dangerous. All great adventures are.	aliens christopher-pike danger spooksville the-unknown watch-waverly	Christopher Pike
229d908	"You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out die." "I almost did. If it weren't for Gary Frankel, I probably wouldn't have made it. . . ." "Gary Frankel?" The nicest, geekiest guy in school? For the first time I scan Alex's face and see a faint, new scar above his eye and nasty ones by his ear and neck. "Oh, God! W-what did they d-do to you?" He takes my hand and places it on his chest. His eyes are intense and dark, like they were the first time I noticed him in the parking lot that first day of school senior year. "It took me a long time to realize I needed to fix everything The choices I made. The gang. Bein' beaten to within an inch of my life and branded like cattle was nothin' compared to losin' you. If I could take back every word I said in the hospital, I would. I thought if I pushed you away, I'd be protectin' you from what happened to Paco and my dad." He looks up and his eyes pierce mine. "I'll never push you away again, Brittany. Ever. I swear." Beaten? Branded? I'm feeling sick to my stomach and tears sting my eyes. "Shh." He puts his arms around me, rubbing his hands across my back. "It's all right. I'm okay," he chants over and over again, his voice catching."	beaten brittany-ellis comfort crying danger gang quit tears	Simone Elkeles
eb34ba9	The world (including Drapervilleh is not a nice place, and the innocent and the young have to take their chances. They cannot be watched over, twenty-four hours of the day. At what moment, from what hiding-place, the idea of evil will strike, there is no telling. And when it does, the result is not always disastrous. Children have their own incalculable strength and weakness, and this, for all their seeming helplessness, will determine the pattern of their lives. Even when you suspect why they fall downstairs, you cannot be sure. You have no way of knowing whether their fright is permanent or can be healed by putting butter on the large lump that comes out on their foreheads after a fall.	danger evil parenting	William Maxwell
2b489db	The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it's the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down.	danger government power secrets	Don DeLillo
2d90572	The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty.	danger death fear love	James M. Cain

6394972

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

chinese crisis danger inspirational opportunity

John F. Kennedy

9d6e736

Love is a dangerous angel.

danger love

Francesca Lia Block

a480f58

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.

danger life

Jeannette Walls

6cec52d

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

danger reading

Jeanette Winterson

f7fa717

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

cowardice danger destruction fault general homer lead reckless shame temper trouble war worry

Sun Tzu

f12d3ef

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

change danger life

Mitch Albom

dc8d582

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

colonizer danger fear folly humanity humans madness mind-control nuclear-bomb nuclear-threat nuclear-weapons truth white whiteness

Arundhati Roy

5eb28f2

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

bond danger relaxation

Ian Fleming

a10b283

News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.

danger worry

Patricia C. Wrede

292cfbd

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

danger emotion planning

Barbara W. Tuchman

103bb4b

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

danger human-nature

Orson Scott Card

d35a651

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

danger death fear strength

Toni Morrison

062d07d

"What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had! "I wish I knew!" thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, "Nothing, just now." "Think again," it said: "that won't do." Alice thought, but nothing came of it. "Please, would you tell me what you call yourself?" she said timidly, "I think that might help a little." "I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further on," the Fawn said. "I can't remember here." So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of delight. "And dear me, you're a human child!" A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed."

danger deer fawn fear innocence instinct purity survival wonderland

Lewis Carroll

dea26fc

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

danger safety tradition

Mary Doria Russell

10c2a5f

"Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it's obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scientifiction, I regret the lack of any female writers but only Radclyffe Hall opened my eyes outside sci-fi.

atheist belief danger fairy-tales hope humanist morality respect sci-fi science science-fiction secular utopia

Forrest J. Ackerman

bf0c71f

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

danger journey

Tahir Shah

fd3c002

I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.

danger divorce failure journey reflection

Craig Ferguson

dca010a

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

clancy courage danger fear man

Tom Clancy

f5e8a7f

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.

bravery courage danger faith fear pain peace peace-of-mind road walk

Madeleine L'Engle

0a100fd

... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

danger peril

Herman Melville

49f69a5

sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilderness she can enter be solaced believing the power that there be sacred place that there can be atonement now she returns with no fear facing the past ready to risk knowing these woods now hold beauty and danger

danger rain woods

Bell Hooks

99fbebe

I don't like this war. I don't like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the grumbling and the jealousies and the pettishness in the middle. I hate the lack of gallantry and grace; the self-seeking; the destruction of valuable people and things. I believe in danger and endeavor as a form of tempering but I reject it if this is the only shape it can take.

danger endeavor gallantry grace war

Dorothy Dunnett

a11f669

Courage is the antidote to danger.

danger

Erle Stanley Gardner

6569628

"If you're in trouble, I swear I will never stop until I get to you," he called softly. Sage could've pretended she was already gone, but she couldn't leave without answering. "I know."

danger kickass-heroine mary-e-pearson smart-heroine tamora-pierce ya-espionage-spy-thriller ya-romance

Erin Beaty

b91fb4f

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

danger harm protection travel

Tahir Shah

a02321e

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

danger irony

Khaled Hosseini

3f5dfbb

Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous--dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say.

danger ideas morality

James Baldwin

f7c52ca

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

danger fear ghost-stories

Lois Lowry

2c42f82

The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.

danger internet physicality reality truth web

Margaret Atwood

4a5a76d

...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become

change danger fear heart love outcome realization realize result risk see soul threaten truth understand worry

Robin Hobb

c321e55

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.

awaiting aware awareness banish cheap-optimism cowardice danger dangers food human-beings humanity instinct nonexistent optimism self-deception supper unwelcome warning

Stefan Zweig

7723526

Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

danger dangerous-people

Robin Maxwell

37f8daa

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.

children danger safety

Paul  Murray

fb3f13c

You've never been the safe, nice girl next door, despite everything you do to be that person. That's why you joined the I.S., and even there you didn't fit in, because, knowing it or not, you were a possible threat to everyone around you. People sense it on some level. I see it all the time. The dangerous are attracted by the lure of an equal, and the weak are afraid. Then they avoid you, or go out of their way to make your life miserable so you'll leave and they can continue deluding themselves that they're safe. (...) You got off on the risk.

danger fit risk threat

Kim Harrison

bc99bb1

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

danger dread

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

d31ec3f

I touch the double row of silver hoop earrings hanging from his left ear, trail along his jawline, his neck, down his shoulder, to the flaming tail of the dragon on his arm. He leans into the caress, and my own body feels on fire with the continued way his eyes gaze upon me. The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now--inside and out--all I see is beauty.

danger earrings isaiah rachel-young tattoos touch

Katie McGarry

52674ec

As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code.

danger

Tahir Shah

baeb2d7

To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it's a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed.

danger killing lions

Beryl Markham

7e61195

I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, 'The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.' I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?

censorship danger reading sedition

Jeanette Winterson

a122a35

"People should be more careful about what they read to their kids," Park said. "Some of this stuff sounds dangerous."

danger dangerous kids read

Jennifer Crusie

5058335

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

child children danger demand equal kid little much require risk show teach young youth

Robin Hobb

45b8dd8

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

danger lenin russian-revolution

Orlando Figes

ca225a2

Why do we live in Spooksville? It's not just because our families live here. It's because this is a place of adventure. The unknown surrounds us every time we leave our homes. I know what I'm doing is dangerous. All great adventures are.

aliens christopher-pike danger spooksville the-unknown watch-waverly

Christopher Pike

229d908

"You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out die." "I almost did. If it weren't for Gary Frankel, I probably wouldn't have made it. . . ." "Gary Frankel?" The nicest, geekiest guy in school? For the first time I scan Alex's face and see a faint, new scar above his eye and nasty ones by his ear and neck. "Oh, God! W-what did they d-do to you?" He takes my hand and places it on his chest. His eyes are intense and dark, like they were the first time I noticed him in the parking lot that first day of school senior year. "It took me a long time to realize I needed to fix everything The choices I made. The gang. Bein' beaten to within an inch of my life and branded like cattle was nothin' compared to losin' you. If I could take back every word I said in the hospital, I would. I thought if I pushed you away, I'd be protectin' you from what happened to Paco and my dad." He looks up and his eyes pierce mine. "I'll never push you away again, Brittany. Ever. I swear." Beaten? Branded? I'm feeling sick to my stomach and tears sting my eyes. "Shh." He puts his arms around me, rubbing his hands across my back. "It's all right. I'm okay," he chants over and over again, his voice catching."

beaten brittany-ellis comfort crying danger gang quit tears

Simone Elkeles

eb34ba9

The world (including Drapervilleh is not a nice place, and the innocent and the young have to take their chances. They cannot be watched over, twenty-four hours of the day. At what moment, from what hiding-place, the idea of evil will strike, there is no telling. And when it does, the result is not always disastrous. Children have their own incalculable strength and weakness, and this, for all their seeming helplessness, will determine the pattern of their lives. Even when you suspect why they fall downstairs, you cannot be sure. You have no way of knowing whether their fright is permanent or can be healed by putting butter on the large lump that comes out on their foreheads after a fall.

danger evil parenting

William Maxwell

2b489db

The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it's the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down.

danger government power secrets

Don DeLillo

2d90572

The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty.

danger death fear love

James M. Cain