“I became terrified of him, for him, of the nightmare which was becoming reality for him, the more so as I could recognize similar thoughts and feelings in myself, even though they were hidden, locked up in my own depths.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I just clung closer to her and knew the boogeyman couldn't get me, not as long as Mama held me in her arms, not as long as I didn't think about the little girl who had been cut up and stuffed in a trunk -- only a block away from our house -- the one crime that freaked me out when I was still very yo…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I was afraid of the boogeyman until I was fourteen or fifteen. The boogeyman was the devil who could appear in any form. Before I went to sleep, I had to look under my bed. The boogeyman was death and death was the greatest fear of all.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?”— Sherryl Woods, amazon.com
“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.”— Rudy Francisco, youtube.com
“If anything happens in the daytime, we ask what it is and are not so frightened; but if there is a noise at night, terror seizes on all our senses.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I don’t want to be so scared all the time. So alone. I want to believe something can be worth it. Worth the pain. Worth the risk.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“Sometimes people say terrible things when they’re scared. They don’t mean to, but they can’t help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren’t completely powerless.”— Jonathan Maberry, amazon.com
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com
“I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that’s why she always struggled… And I think that’s why she also struggled with love. She couldn’t touch it.…”— Carrie Ryan, amazon.com
“You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Being in love is the worst. I mean it’s the best, but it's so hard and scary to open your heart to someone.”— Amy Poehler, justjared.com