Covered Quote by Orson Scott Card

“... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are…

— John Katzenbach

“Sometimes at night, when the nightmare clung to me, I wondered if Peter’s assurances that I would never grow up were only assurances that…

— Christina Henry

“Only smart-arses in the real world who don’t know any better would say something as idiotic as ‘it was only a nightmare.’ There are…

— Fredrik Backman

“Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to…

— Mark Lawrence

“I lost the letter in rather embarrassing circumstances. We were to dine at Parramatta Government House that same evening, and Peter had come in…

— Jennifer Paynter

“It was terror, I realised, the kind reserved for nightmares, when your mind has no defence against the dark. It was the most primitive,…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

“I used to have nightmare about having petrol poured over me, and being set on fire, and nowadays I have nightmares that I have…

— Louis de Bernieres

“It was strange how in no time at all everybody went from fear to being excruciatingly bored, and the very women who yesterday had…

— Thomas Berger

“I suppose I do deserve it; for not noticing the nearest helpers I have. But you must admit the accumulation of incidents was rather…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly?”

— Edward St. Aubyn

“My fear of saying something stupid often leaves me saying almost nothing at all.”

— Julie Buxbaum

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at…

— Carol Vorderman