“When you're Stained, patches of skin glisten like liquid starlight and, somehow, his creatures find you.”
Source: The Quelling: Befriend your enemy, save your friend.
“Terror can be more horrible in calm than in storm. Stillness can be much more sinister than noise.”
Source: The Subjugated Beast
“The last decade has filled so many of us with a growing sense of unreality. We seem trapped in a grind of constant change without ever getting the chance to integrate it. Those rolling news cycles, the chatter on social media, the way that our families have split along partisan lines: it feels as though we've undergone a halving, then a quartering, and now we are some kind of social rubble.
If there were a spirit of this age, it would look a lot like fear. For years now we've been running like rabbits. We glimpse a flas hof white tail, read the danger signal, and run, flashing our own white tail behind us. It's a chain reaction, a river of terror surging incoherently onwards, gathering up other wild, alert bodies who in turn signal their own danger. There is no one predator from which to escape; there are many. We are in the business of running now. It is all so urgent. Every year, it seems we must run harder. There is no other solution. We can only run, and panic, and chatter out our fears to others, who will mirror them back to us.”
Source: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
“We will miss no person as much as the person we could have been”
Source: IL CONFINE DI GHIACCIO (FANTASY Vulcanici Vol. 1)
“When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter.”
Source: The Handyman Method
“What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?”
Source: The Handyman Method
“Life is really very simple. In each moment, we have the opportunity to choose between saying “yes” or “no”, to listen to our intuition, to listen to our true inner voice, the Existential voice within ourselves. When we say “yes”, we have contact with Existence and we receive nourishment, love, joy, support and inspiration. When we say “no”, we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the future – as if any other time than here and now really could make us happy and satisfied.”
Source: Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
“Stop letting fear leach into your voice,” Luca snaps from behind Rhiannon. “If the dragons think you’re a coward, you’ll be nothing but a name tomorrow.”
“She says,” Ridoc narrates, “inducing more fear.”
Source: Fourth Wing (Part 1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]
“How many nights do I sleep in fear of morning and wake up hoping the sun never rises again?”
Source: STARS
“Okay, fine but when we sneak out, I'm going too. You don't get to have all the fun."
"Fun? I'm scared to death . . .”
Source: Sugar Plum Princess