Phindiwe Nkosi quote: "Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that <br />seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without <br />confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong."

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a wh...
MELODY BEATTIE

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of
humans even as I exclud...
MIROSLAV VOLF

- The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?'
- Yes.
- My Imagination.
- I thou...
STEPHEN KING

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought yo...
STEPHEN KING

Mild is the slow necessity of death;
The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,
Without a gr...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

The iron tongue of Midnight hath
told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis
almost fairy time. I fea...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. I wish I could have lived in a kind ...
NATSUKI TAKAYA

Purple,
Wonder, majesty, and enchantment doesn't
even begin to cover the feelings that I h...
OTTILIE WEBER

Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still ha...
LIZ THEBART

One day, I stopped hating.
I ceased all meaningless activity.
I completed the circle. I HENRY ROLLINS

Can’t hear… call back… good luck…”
“Nïx, I know you’re faking the static.” She...
KRESLEY COLE

That moment when my heart stops, almost as if, it never existed..
When every breath, slows down...
HAFSA SHAH

And without fear the lawless roads
Ran wrong through all the land.
EDWIN MUIR

David was caught in a very uncomfortable position; however, he seemed to grasp a deep understanding ...
GENE EDWARDS

I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA

I don´t listen to hoax or rumours,
but I like a good sense of humour.
If you are wrong,...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

When the mountain quaked
Like an elbow's nudge
Like a shout that something is wrong
...
SHANNON HALE

I HOLD

If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.

COCO J. GINGER

That moment when this heart.. stops.. almost as if it never existed.
When every.. breathe.. slo...
HAFSA SHAH

After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'

What do you mean, babe? You a fin...
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE

How long can you keep me invisible?"
"As long as were in physical contact."
My throat felt...
RACHEL VINCENT

I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags unde...
TRISTA MATEER

Time

You were the one
I wanted most
to stay.

But time could not
LANG LEAV

Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been with...
MARY BALOGH

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glori...
RUSSELL BAKER

And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ

It was strange that in some sort of Jeffrey Dahmer meets Ghandi way I was
able to love myself f...
THE HIPPIE

Standing at the edge of time
Almost falling down to the dark abyss
As I near the end of mi...
ISABELLE GUZMAN

I say to my sister, "I thought you were doing the things in our Dream Book. I was sure of it."
CLARA KENSIE

It's Simon, he's missing."

Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?"
CASSANDRA CLARE

I had rather be a meteor, single, alone.'

Plus Paris itself was noisome. Even with its gl...
DANIELLE DUTTON

My dad noticed we could swim without lessons. It seemed to be something I had a talent for.
CARRIE CHYKALIUK

IT’S ALL CLEAR
ISIS INVADES YOUR SPHERE
YET NO ONE IMAGINES YOUR FEAR
BUT DON'T WOR...
WIDAD AKREYI

She resolved every day to:

1. Do something for someone else.
2. Do something for mys...
MARCI SHIMOFF

There was something wrong with me.

The human body doesn’t want to get hurt. We’re pro...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
...
MARY OLIVER

Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS

I LOVE YOU SO MANY REASONS '

---
Before i met you
I spent a lot of time
...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ

I learned about life

from life itself,

love I learned in a single kiss
PABLO NERUDA

Yes. Kissing. Overrated."

"I could change your mind," Zach said, surprising the hell out ...
TRACY SUMNER

The day I became a writer
it wasn't the day a whore paid me in sex
in exchange for one of ...
DAVE MATTHES

Every time you do something new at the college, especially something that has a big physical presenc...
CONWAY JEFFRESS

To my mind, ‘magic’ is the hard-to-define quality of the things that stir up mystical feelings l...
BRENDAN MYERS

Outside, the world had become a formless, swirling mist with no
shapes or shadows behind it, wh...
NEIL GAIMAN

Sometimes something that you've been asking for
It's just something that you could not see befo...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

Hope. Hope that something beautiful may come from this tragic story.
Fear. Fear that it won’t...
K.A. TUCKER

So close
I can almost touch you
But then you're gone
Like mist around the edge...
STACI HART

Without risk I have no fear, without any fear - what's the point, because I have no opportunity for ...
CHRIS HILL

Are tou trying to be annoying?" I demanded. My patience was not waning, but entirely gone. "Because ...
STEPHENIE MEYER

That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER

But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy, EMILY BRONTë

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
No amount of money,
Can stop me from loving you,
CHRIS COLFER

Across the sea fat kings watched and were gleeful, that something begun so well had now gone off the...
GEORGE SAUNDERS

A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?"
It stopped bobbin...
DIANE DUANE

You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye—and he was willing to bet, when it happen...
J.R. WARD

Suddenly the ground seemed to give way beneath me,
and I found myself in quite another region. BERTRAND RUSSELL

Maybe that would be a good thing to do.

He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him m...
EMILY VEINGLORY

Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soon
as fear begins to ascend, a...
DON DELILLO

Consider A Move

The steady time of being unknown,
in solitude, without friends,
MICHAEL RYAN

I stopped going to therapy
because I knew my therapist was right
and I wanted to keep bein...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS

That guy seemed like a douche-bro.”

It’s one of the longest sentences she’s ever sa...
ASHLEY POSTON

I stood there silently, under the cold embrace of that rain,
and watched myself drown,
as ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON

Every time you post something online, you have a choice.
You can either make it something that ...
ZOE SUGG

It's not that I'm angry;
You've done nothing wrong.
I'm just not sure why I'm staying
MARGO T. ROSE

Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?"
As always, he took a second to think about the answe...
SARAH DESSEN

That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like ...
SARAH DESSEN

You've used me to punish yourself, haven't you?"
He watched dawning realization spread over her...
ELIZABETH HOYT

That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying

I wen...
MARY OLIVER

Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes.
Though I had my driver'...
JERRY SPINELLI

Of the seminal moments in my life, Careers Day in the autumn of Year 5 is my favorite. Everyone had ...
NON PRATT

He had been haunted his whole life by a mild
case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhoo...
DAN BROWN

I blame everything on LIFE!
I was happy being dead until I had a new LIFE!
I was alone, bu...
ANTHONY T.HINCKS

And I told you that one night wan't enough."
Loki leaned down, kissing me deeply and pressing m...
AMANDA HOCKING

It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex rack...
FRANK DEFORD

Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
...
COLEMAN BARKS

...And where's Margaret Pier? I know she's not dead, even if she's almost as old as I am and ...
HELEN HUDSON

Adrian tipped my face up toward his and kissed me. Like always, the world around me stopped moving. ...
RICHELLE MEAD

A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to
be on my deathbed before I st...
LISA KLEYPAS

Turn to the wind, I dare you
For time is but a space that is captured
Live in fear or peac...
F.N.COLLIER

You were the one, I wanted most to stay.

But time could not be kept at bay.

T...
LANG LEAV

For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the ...
CASSANDRA CLARE

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

We’re all scared.

Yes, all of us. I’m afraid every day. If I’m not afraid, I must n...
RICHIE NORTON

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and...
KAREN MARIE MONING

What I mean is, right from that first time, there was
something in Tommy's manner that was ting...
KAZUO ISHIGURO

Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.

I fidgeted around with th...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Even though I knew she never belonged to me, my heart didn't agree.

The old man and the b...
GAIL GILLESPIE-FOX

Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
T...
GREEN DAY

As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures tha...
BILL BRYSON

That was one other time when my whole body reacted to the fear and went out of my own control. My ne...
DIET EMAN

Could you do a glamour and turn into something smaller?" I asked it. "Preferably not a chain, since ...
RICK RIORDAN

There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it ...
KELLI RUSSELL AGODON

It seemed my whole
life was composed of these disjointed
fractions of time, hanging around...
DONNA TARTT

Anything that happens, happens.

Anything that, in happening, causes something else to hap...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I can’t even handle love, there’s no way I can handle it being taken away. I won’t survive it....
B.J. NOVAK

Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey m...
JIM BUTCHER

The door opened, and it was
like an apparition materializing before me, some sort of heavenly m...
RICHELLE MEAD

Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that
seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without
confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.

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seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without
confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.