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."	fright humor 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.	cry fright predator prey scare silence silent whine wolf worry	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?	courage fear fight fright hate hope men-s-heart mental-illness mind mystery self-loathing 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.	fleeting fright heaven life-and-living love nostalgic sky tears yearn yearning	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.	fear-of-unknown fright helplessness terror thunderstorms 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....	fright hand searching the-other-mother	Neil Gaiman
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
b9f6028	...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.	bigotry fear fright hatred here-today ignorance prejudice xenophobia	Ann M. Martin

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."

fright humor 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.

cry fright predator prey scare silence silent whine wolf worry

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?

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

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

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.

fear-of-unknown fright helplessness terror thunderstorms 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....

fright hand searching the-other-mother

Neil Gaiman

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

b9f6028

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

bigotry fear fright hatred here-today ignorance prejudice xenophobia

Ann M. Martin