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title: "1 Resentment Fear Quotes By J. Robert Lennon"
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> [My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/my-sister-stood-up-trembling-and-i-must-admit-that-i-expected-her/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

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## More by J. Robert Lennon

> [My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/my-sister-stood-up-trembling-and-i-must-admit-that-i-expected-her/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/treasure-nothing-be-willing-to-throw-out-anything-the-story-you-just/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [“It is so much like a movie, Irina can't stand it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/it-is-so-much-like-a-movie-irina-can-t-stand-it/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [“All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/all-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves-are-wrong/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/wolf-in-white-van-is-beautiful-enigmatic-and-sad-and-like-every-other/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [“She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/she-had-the-scattered-feeling-she-always-got-when-events-conspired-to/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [“What she wanted was really two things: to be elsewhere, and to be somebody else. Or at least a version of herself that had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/what-she-wanted-was-really-two-things-to-be-elsewhere-and-to-be/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/people-in-my-long-experience-want-to-talk-they-may-believe-they-wish/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/i-m-far-more-often-annoyed-than-delighted-by-previous-readers-marks/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [“This was not the state of mind I was accustomed to, at the outset of an expedition. But one does not fight the battles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/this-was-not-the-state-of-mind-i-was-accustomed-to-at-the-outset-of/)

[J. Robert Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-lennon/)

> [“At least things fucking happen in those books, she thought: it's not just people lying in bed and thinking about their fucking feelings .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-lennon/at-least-things-fucking-happen-in-those-books-she-thought-it-s-not/)

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