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“You don’t have to be afraid—" "I am always afraid!" I don’t know what shocks me more—the power in my voice or the words themselves. Afraid. I am always afraid. It’s a truth I locked away years ago, a fact I fought hard to overcome.”

Book:Children of Blood and Bone

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“Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that sleep would come, and their terrors were so tame and domestic: the job, the money, what the teacher will think if I can't get Jennie nicer clothes, does my wife still love me, who are my friends. They were pallid compared to the fears every child lies cheek and jowl with in his dark bed, with no one to confess to in hope of perfect understanding but another child. There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.”

Fear

Book:'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

“But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.”

Fear

Book:The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

Source: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.”

God Might Ability Power Richelle Goodrich Statistics Richelle Almighty Probability Likelihood Omnipotence

Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price of safety. That was the bargain we made with the devil we knew to escape the devil we didn't.”

Fear Feminism Female Oppression Compromise Womens Rights Misogyny Patriarchy Domination Femininity Oppressione Patriarcale

Book:Deliverance

Source: Deliverance

“Eyes and ears are not the problem... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.”

Fear Anger Envy Rage Blindness Mistrust

Book:The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Source: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live.”

Love Heart Pain Fear Feet Resistance Chinese Choice Fear Of Love Self Limiting Beliefs Containment Bind Self Imposed Limits

Author:Kate McGahan

“An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold went deeper than his skin. It was inside his chest, it was inside his very heart. . . . Harry’s eyes rolled up into his head. He couldn’t see. He was drowning in cold. There was a rushing in his ears as though of water. He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder . . . And then, from far away, he heard screaming, terrible, terrified, pleading screams. He wanted to help whoever it was, he tried to move his arms, but couldn’t . . . a thick white fog was swirling around him, inside him —”

Fear Dementors

Book:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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