“The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 103 of 107
“Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.”
“If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.”
“I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.”
“It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.”
“I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.”
“I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.”
“maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.”
“How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.”
“Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.”
“Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway”
“The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.”
“The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.”
“You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.”
“Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.”
“I can't shove the dark out of my way.”
“I don't know how the heart withstands it.”
“It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.”
“I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.”
“Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.”