Fear Quote by Frances Hardinge

“However, the crowds all the while maintained their mouse-tense hush, their air of urgency. Fear. There was a reek of it everywhere, Mosca realized,…

— Frances Hardinge

“Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow, jerky movements…

— Robert Goolrick

“ One of the two of us , thought Mosca, is in a lot of trouble right now. I wonder which of us it…

— Frances Hardinge

“She felt his gaze fall from her as if it were a physical thing. This is how the field mouse feels, when the shadow…

— Scott Hawkins

“She pivoted on one foot, turning her sword. Fast. Her head snapped toward me. Dark eyes stared straight at me. I detected no fear.…

— Ilona Andrews

“I paused finally and watched the trees for slashes of light, but saw none. As my heart settled and my ears became less occupied…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father’s intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically meshed in…

— Frances Hardinge

“Mosca had preferred it when she could hear the edge in her companion’s voice. Now she felt like someone who knows that there is…

— Frances Hardinge

“Until yesterday Mosca had been trapped between two rivers, desperate to get out before winter arrived. Toll had looked like her only means of…

— Frances Hardinge

“I stare at each one of their faces, and this is the moment where we all realize that the boy they thought I was,…

— Laura Thalassa

“Mosca felt something enormous swell within the knotted stomach that she hid behind her fists. It seemed it must surge out of her like…

— Frances Hardinge

“A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.”

— John Ashbery