“So never lose sight for a moment of the maxim so often repeated in one context or another in these letters: that fear is at the root of every possibility of trouble, and that "Fear is Failure, and the forerunner of failure; for in the heart of a coward virtue abideth not.”
Source: Magick Without Tears
“Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.”
“You can't be a good mountain goat if you're afraid of heights! It's the same in one's life, so fear often prevents you from becoming something good!”
“for my Master, you must know, is one of very tender bowels, specially to them that are afraid.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“Ah wants you always, John. Fo' I fear. I fear."
He understood. He lifted his hand a little to stroke hers.
"But Mammy, ef the cabin 'n' the swamp is chokin' me?"
"Chokin's our life." Her voice is harsh.”
Source: Holiday
“Fear was a man running from his shadow. It was a woman wearing headphones and the only sound she could hear in them was her own terror. Fear was a solipsist, a narcissist, blind to everything except itself. Fear was stronger than ethics, stronger than judgment, stronger than responsibility, stronger than civilization. Fear was a bolting animal trampling children underfoot as it fled from itself. Fear was a bigot, a tyrant, a coward, a red mist, a whore. Fear was a bullet pointed at his heart.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“Sometimes I get carried away. But I think maybe sometimes you run when it looks like it's going to cost you anything.”
Source: The Only Alien on the Planet
“Now a cold awareness of the uncertainty of all life, no matter how careful the planning, hollowed emptily in the pit of her stomach.”
Source: Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)
“Mr. Jenkins screamed, in a way that she had never known a man could scream, a high, piercing screech.
Then he rose up into the night like a great flapping bird, flew, screaming across the sky, became a rent, an emptiness, a slash of nothingness--”
Source: Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)
“I attempt to avoid allowing fear in, but it lingers when I’m fatigued and vulnerable, like an old companion.”