“my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.” 
― Kendare Blake

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.” 
― Terry Pratchett

“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.” 
― Max Brooks

“Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.” 
― Jennifer A. Nielsen

“Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.” 
― Yuki Urushibara

“She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.” 
― John Steinbeck

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” 
― Bram Stoker