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“You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.”
“Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.”
“Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pine...”
“The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have...”
“A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, ...”
“The dread had not left my soul.”
“Sometimes", said Miss Phillips, "the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.”
“And the only thing I knew how to do was to hold on as tightly as possible and count every single second until I reached the last one. The one I dreaded most.Sudden, violent, final.The end.”
“There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.”
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
“...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal mysteries.”
“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstaclethe used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure ...”
“The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not the twelve-year-old, though. He shifted and lay on his back and decided to look up at the sky. W...”
“I don't want anything to happen to you. You being hurt...that thought fills me with dread. I can't promise not to interfere, not if I think you'll come to harm." He pauses and takes a deep breath. ...”
“There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.”
“The things that kept them awake in the middle of the night, the things they did underneath the cover of darkness, both dreadful and beautiful, both attractive and repulsive, were revealed in stark ...”
“Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.”
“For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.”
