“If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of the prarie or the plain, witness the reaction of a modern suburban family, nearly ready for bed, when the doorbell rings or the door is rattled. They will stop where they stand, or sit bolt upright in their beds, as if a streak of pure lightning has passed through the house. Eyes wide, voices fearful, they will whisper to each other, "There's someone at the door," in a way that might make you believe they have always feared and anticipated this moment - that they have spent their lives being stalked.” 
― Alice McDermott

“Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.” 
― Lolly Daskal

“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.” 
― Sophocles

“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” 
― Edmund Burke

“You're afraid of your own anger.” 
― Kristin Cashore

“I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing.” 
― Sabaa Tahir

“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.” 
― Ezra Pound

“If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators” 
― Alyxandra Harvey