Fear Quote by Colm Tóibín

“How much time had she wasted living in fear? Living for others? How much of her life would she continue to let slip away…

— Gretchen McNeil

“She thought her world had stopped falling apart, but she was wrong. It had simply become isolated, her focus narrowed to struggling not to…

— Lorraine Heath

“She had always suffered from a curious fear of what was going to happen round the next corner. Even when life went smoothly and…

— D.E. Stevenson

“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had…

— Robin McKinley

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Reality revived. She frowned and gazed ahead, feeling numb still after all these months, yet unable to believe it was true, wanting to lift…

— Laura Kinsale

“She suddenly feels a strange kind of serenity. She refuses to live what might be her last moments in a state of hopeless panic.…

— Tracy Buchanan

“Every emotion that she’d felt during the journey paled against the fear. It was now as much a part of her as any of…

— Angela Marsons

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But…

— L.M. Montgomery

“She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.”

— Grace Metalious