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"I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog."
"She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone"
"Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love."
"I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse."
"I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me."
"What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of"
"I think they were scared of me because I was different."
"I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror."
"Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together."
"I'm scared of boogers. If anyone ever showed me a booger I'd smash their face in."
"So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action."
"People love to make excuses, forget all the excuses, if it doesn't work out, failure is the best thing that can happen to somebody, people are extremely scared of failure."
"I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things."
"In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road."
"I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary."
"Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth."
"An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion."
"I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it."
"Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation."
"But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance."
