If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
—Jules Renard
Sometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.
—Aurora Rose Reynolds in Assumption
There are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.
—Molly McAdams in From Ashes
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
—Matt Groening
The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.
—Heather Brewer in Eighth Grade Bites
Rejection, though—it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Always do what you are afraid to do.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
—James Thurber
Getting a living under capitalism… is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.
—Eugene V. Debs
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
—Woody Allen
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
—Lord Byron
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.
—Scott Adams
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
—Edith Sitwell
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
—André Maurois
When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
—Ann Radcliffe