# Quote — Keith Roberts, Pavane

> It’s a terrible thing, being afraid. It’s like an illness; like wanting to fall down, and not being able to faint. You see you never get used to it. You live with it and live with it and every day it’s worse; and one day it’s the worst of all. I thought, when it...happened, I wouldn’t be afraid. But I was wrong....

- Author: [Keith Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts.md)
- Book: [Pavane](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts/pavane.md)
- Page: 260
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Keith_Roberts#Pavane_(1968)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts/pavane/its-a-terrible

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> She stopped dead; and the look in her eyes showed plainly she’d just received the import of a crude lesson in economics.

p. 224 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts/pavane/she-stopped-dead.md)

> A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts/pavane/a-death-was.md)

> The years had a way of piling themselves one atop the next, unnoticed and uncounted; that was how young men turned into old ones.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts/pavane/the-years-had.md)