Fear Quotes

The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.

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"He puts his hand on my knee. His other hand is on my leg."
Offred
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"I'm afraid. It shows on my face."
Offred
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"I don't want him to see me. He must not see me."
Offred
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"I warn't feeling very brash."
Huckleberry Finn
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"What could I possibly hope to achieve by venturing to such a place?"
Stevens
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"I feel a tremor in the earth."
Offred
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"Fear is what I have instead of hope."
Offred
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"The real torture is wondering what happens next."
Offred
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"I am powerfully afraid of ghosts."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Miss Watson's ghost would come to me."
Huckleberry Finn
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"It was most dark now, and I heard some people making towards us."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I was in awful trouble."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Everything you have ever been afraid of has already happened to you."
Shug Avery
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"I didn't know that the world could be so dark."
Laila
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"If you're afraid of your reflection in the water, you should not look at it."
Mariam
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"Fear tastes like metal."
Offred
C
"When he come, he come with vengeance."
Celie
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"I feel like the word shatter."
Offred
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"Fear creates shadows."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I couldn't ever feel easy in my mind."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Fear tastes like metal"
Offred
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"Pain here and now is worse than pain remembered."
Janine
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"I didn't know who to trust. They could have been plants, spies."
Offred
B
"He had become the enemy in her mind."
Briony Tallis
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"I am the beast in your nightmares."
Rasheed
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"I felt mighty queer."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Fear can paralyze us more effectively than any physical restraint."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"Now we walkslinkingly, quickly, with our eyes down, through the aisle of the supermarket."
Offred
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"He beat me like he beat the children."
Celie
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"Fear is a terrible thing. It ruins people."
The Narrator (omniscient)