fright

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f7303e3	"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."	humor fright rincewind	Terry Pratchett
feae7ba	Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.	silence predator prey scare whine silent wolf cry worry fright	Robin Hobb
db3b234	How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?	mind hate courage fear hope men-s-heart self-loathing fright mystery fight mental-illness torture	Joseph Conrad
d736c01	He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven--at least in this life--was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.	heaven life-and-living love fleeting yearn yearning nostalgic sky fright tears	Mary Balogh
27c9db7	In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.	helplessness fear-of-unknown thunderstorms fright terror wilderness	Henryk Sienkiewicz
b11e4e2	And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and up onto a tree stump. It stood there for a moment, like crab tasting the air, and then it made one triumphant, nail-clacking leap onto the center of the tablecloth. Time slowed for Coraline. The white fingers closed around the black key....	the-other-mother hand fright searching	Neil Gaiman
b9f6028	...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.	hatred prejudice fear here-today bigotry xenophobia fright ignorance	Ann M. Martin
7936bfa	Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.	fright suspence wilderness	Henryk Sienkiewicz

f7303e3

"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."

humor fright rincewind

Terry Pratchett

feae7ba

Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

silence predator prey scare whine silent wolf cry worry fright

Robin Hobb

db3b234

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

mind hate courage fear hope men-s-heart self-loathing fright mystery fight mental-illness torture

Joseph Conrad

d736c01

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven--at least in this life--was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

heaven life-and-living love fleeting yearn yearning nostalgic sky fright tears

Mary Balogh

27c9db7

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

helplessness fear-of-unknown thunderstorms fright terror wilderness

Henryk Sienkiewicz

b11e4e2

And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and up onto a tree stump. It stood there for a moment, like crab tasting the air, and then it made one triumphant, nail-clacking leap onto the center of the tablecloth. Time slowed for Coraline. The white fingers closed around the black key....

the-other-mother hand fright searching

Neil Gaiman

b9f6028

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

hatred prejudice fear here-today bigotry xenophobia fright ignorance

Ann M. Martin

7936bfa

Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.

fright suspence wilderness

Henryk Sienkiewicz