Quotes
Non-believers finding faith in fear.
p. 219
He was surprised by his own brutality, he assumed that it was caused by fear.
p. 172
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
The king was purposefully creating the maximum amount of fear. In Richard’s mind, the fear of his subjects equated to his own sense of power.
p. 141
Curiosity is the most powerful incentive in the world. Why? Because it’s capable of overcoming the two most powerful disincentives in the world: common sense and fear.
p. 313
But he felt pleased. The Grandfathers didn’t wake up. The noise he had heard as a boy was just papervine getting hotter or colder. That was true, and he could prove it. It wasn’t hard to work out, so why is it all I can do not to wet myself? Because papervine moving doesn’t sound interesting and walking skeletons does, that’s why. Somehow they make us feel more important. Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear that we might not be.
p. 237
Some people would tell you anything if they thought you’d be scared.
p. 32
He is frightened of me, Mau thought. I haven’t hit him or even raised my hand. I’ve just tried to make him think differently, and now he’s scared. Of thinking. It’s magic.
p. 157
I delay so long, because I fear; because my whole life hangs in balance on a single word; because what I have near me now may never more be near me after, though more than all the world, or than a thousand worlds, to me.
Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.
The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first? (chapter 12)
...There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. (Part One, 9th section)
