Quote by Mikhail Iossel

“In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.”

— Lao Tzu

“They weren't scared, or dispossessed, or fragile. They were possible.”

— Justin Torres

“I was terribly intolerant, but they were terribly threatening to me. They were everything I was afraid of becoming.”

— Andrew Tobias

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller

“... he had never once been frightened of a living one before. They were too fragile, too easily broken and dismantled: They had bones…

— Lauren Oliver

“There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.”

— Gwen Cooper

“It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.”

— Alexandra Robbins

“But instead of feeling safe and secure behind their armed walls they found themselves trapped in the prison they had built with their own…

— Katie J. Davis

“All things seemed in their kinds to be my enemies... It seemed then to my apprehension to proceed from indignation, wrath, and as it…

— Richard Norwood English Puritan 1638

“I learned to ambush the fear and I managed to turn vulnerability to ruthlessness.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“In conquering the fearsome beasts, the conquerors had unwittingly orphaned themselves.”

— William Stolzenburg

“Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman