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“My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me...”
“She went downstairs slowly and sat in front of the fire, rocking herself to and fro as she imagined all of the harm he might have suffered: she could see him enticed into a car by a stranger, she c...”
“His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himself to remember the details of what he had said and done so that his fears returned, redoubled. Hi...”
“Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.”
“Dying is more terrifying than actual death.”
“If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn’t a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind. If you have ever been friends with a drama queen you know how taxing it can b...”
“I’ve gotta stop thinking I know what other people think, cause most of ‘what other people think’ is something I’m making up. So I should just let them have their experience, I’ll have my experience...”
“This is where I go, when I go:It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.I'm there, but I'm not there....”
“Years ago, I dated a lovely young woman who was a few thousand dollars in debt. She was completely stressed out about this. Every month, more interest would be added to her debts.To deal with her s...”
“Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.”
“Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.”
“God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.”
“If you are resolute to go, I will not stop you. But I hope I’m making the right decision.”
“It’s been my experience that people always assume that generalized anxiety disorder is preferable to social anxiety disorder, because it sounds more vague and unthreatening, but those people are to...”
“Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.”
“If you are afraid for your future you don't have a present.”
“Do not think of all your anxieties you will only make yourself ill.”
“Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
“I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright caring and anxiety.”
“Every man through fear mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”
