“Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.”
“On the wrong side of the mirror, you are never alone—only trapped with everything you’ve denied.”
Source: Wrong Side of the Mirror
“This brings me joy, because if I'm dead, that means you all are surely sitting around my table, breaking bread together. I'm sure many of you are wondering why you are here tonight. And I shall leave you in suspense no longer, as I'm not a writer of thrills but of horror. So we bring on the fear.”
Source: How to Survive a Horror Story
“Mortimer would look at her seductive photo shoots and ditzy marketing ploys and give her a stern stare. "This is not who you are. Stop dulling yourself so that you won't intimidate people, Crystal. If people fear you for your tenacity and determination, then so be it.”
Source: How to Survive a Horror Story
“I’m every bit as capable of feeling fear as the next person. Danger scares me. But as I've told countless folks who ask, if I have a certain gift, it’s the ability to keep myself together in places that allow no room for error. I somehow know, in such a fix—like the moves above Thank God Ledge on Half Dome where I stalled out in 2008—how to breathe deeply, calm myself down, and get on with it.”
Source: Alone on the Wall
“I come from fear
I feed you dread,
I break the bread of shivers
among your poor.
I hear boards creaking
scratched by some perverse animal.
I step into the dark
I sit in the midst of its dense back.
Sitting there I ask to hear
your cruelest of stories.
I welcome terror, that somber bull,
I fight for your name held in his jaws.
I taste the fruit whose coarse skin
is eaten by beasts who’ve never tasted honey.
There’s no more bitter food
than the fruit of love traversed by doubt.”
“She wished she could think of something to say to comfort her mother, and not just about Johnnie, but about something much worse that she knew and that Mother didn't. Father had left them and one day, when they all grew up and went away too, Mother would be quite alone.”
Source: The Peppermint Pig
“It seemed to Poll, suddenly, that everyone was always looking forward to something wonderful that might never happen. Lily to being a famous actress, Mother to Dad coming home, Theo to being grown up, not an odd and lonely little boy but a person with friends, Father to making his fortune… It was a dangerous way to go on. The only safe things to be happy about were things that were over and gone.”
Source: The Peppermint Pig
“I'm frightened," Poll said.
"Oh, you have to be brave to look forward," Aunt Sarah said. "Come on now, hold my hand." She stood up and brushed her dress down and looked at Poll keenly, as if she saw into her mind. "Things do go right sometimes," she said.”
Source: The Peppermint Pig
“All my early life, certainly from the age of eleven, I was plagued by the fear of fighting and confrontations.”
Source: Watch My Back: The Geoff Thompson Story of Thompson, Geoff New Edition on 15 September 2001