“You don't really mean that we got to be frightened all the time of nothing? Life' said Piggy expansively, 'Is scientific, that's what it is. In a year or two when the war's over they'll be travelling to Mars and back. I know there isn't no beast, not with claws and all that, I mean, but I know there isn't no fear either.'
Piggy paused.
'Unless'
Ralph moved restlessly.
'Unless what?'
'Unless we get frightened of people.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“There's somethin I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over. I remember one time I was hunkered down in the hobo jungle with some folks. We was talkin 'bout life, and this fella was talkin, said, 'People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass the by must pass thee by.”
Source: Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
“You have terror and I have tears.
In this cruel way, we are for each other.
We are at war. You always win.
But I do not go away.
You shoot me again. Again, I do not go away.
You shoot with bullets, but you have nothing else.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“In the place between scorpions and manners,
Between scream and please pass the salt,
Somewhere between John Kennedy’s November
And my next-door neighbor’s blue flowerbeds,
We live our lives.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“I did not know whose blood it was.
It was cold in my veins,
and I feared it would make me cold, too.”
Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
“Jer je tako loše, tako teško, tako strašno živeti na svetu bez istine.”
Source: Sanjar
“Your mind is a fortress, thief. You limit yourself by keeping the gates closed.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“Aisha was not trying to outrun the vagabonds. She was trying to outrun her magic.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“Young children, like animals, can sense your pain without fearing it.”
Source: Broken Country
“Even godliness can chain you, if followed out of fear instead of choice.”
Source: Under Moonlight: 2025