Tenth-of-december Quote by George Saunders

“I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me.”

— Alex Flinn

“He should have been repulsed, angry, even disgusted by his actions, but he wasn’t. Scared shitless, yes, but fear was healthy, wasn’t it?”

— Ann Lister

“The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Don’t fear what other people can do. Fear most what you could have done, but didn’t.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“impulsive.  It wasn’t like him to do anything without a reasonable amount of thought, much less jump up in the middle of the night…

— Brian Harmon

“The only thing that ever scared him was finding out there was something he couldn't do, so he damn well made sure there was…

— Joey W. Hill

“He had been a fool to imagine it, but he was glad he had been a fool. She had given him one grand dream.”

— Willa Cather

He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Fear drove people to do things they'd never imagine themselves capable of just to avoid it.”

— Maya Rodale

“When people were afraid, they did not always do what they knew to be right. They turned away. They closed their eyes. They said,…

— Lauren Oliver

“They were frightened, no question, but they were not afraid of me. It was a fear of messing up and having to face themselves…

— Markus Zusak