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You mean something like ‘truth or dare’? I haven’t played that in a long time.” She didn’t think he would ever get himself entangled in a game like that, but it was addictive, a compromising icebreaker featuring all the strategy of Poker, minus the cards, mixed with a dash of danger from Russian Roulette, without the revolver.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne
We can end this before anyone gets hurt." William held his hands out to sides as if to show her he was unarmed. "You don't want to hurt people, do you? You will if you don't come away with me. You know that.""I'm not bad," Daisha whispered."I believe you." He held out a hand to her. He curled his fingers toward him in a beckoning gesture. "You can do the right thing here. Just come with me. We'll go meet some people who can help us.""Her. The new Graveminder.""No, not her. You and I can fix this all on our own.
— Melissa Marr, Graveminder
To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it's a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed.
— Beryl Markham, West with the Night
And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands. The thing screamed like a hawk and opened to wings: one white as a death cap, one clotted in shadow. The wings came together and the whole pond shuddered.Something hit Kate's ear and shoulder and smashed to the deck by her feet. It was a swallow, dead. She could hear them falling all over the pond.
— Erin Bow, Plain Kate
Security means the state of being free from danger or threat. Danger means the possibility of suffering harm or injury. The possibility of something unwelcome or unpleasant happening.There are times I have to stress as I express the correct, precise, real and honest definitions; so that the deceptive, politically motivated folks who destructively branded me as “threat to danger” would realise their double denial duplicity, dishonesty and hypocrisy.Have you at least questioned the personal motives and faulty malicious and intentional misjudgment or at least be honestly curious to discern the motive of a cunning person who warns you against another as a danger, a threat or a risk to life or security? Did the political harridan mean political threat to her political coalition or a danger to reveal the harridan's creative deception matched with her political ambitious power links? ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy
— Angelica Hopes
I knew you didn't love me, but I dangerously adored you anyways.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders,But I am no wolf by blood.
— Osip Mandelstam
If you’re in trouble, I swear I will never stop until I get to you,” he called softly.	Sage could’ve pretended she was already gone, but she couldn’t leave without answering.	“I know.
— Erin Beaty, The Traitor's Kiss
Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... "You Found a stranger, now you are in real danger.
— Deyth Banger
He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
This was not a novel. It was a force of nature. Here, in my hands, was the collective imagination of a million teenage girls. Jane Eyre was one of the most famous novels ever written . . . It was the reason that women today secretly fantasized about mystery, danger, and brooding men. Jane Eyre was a twisted Cinderella story . . .
— Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs
For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger
— Sunday Adelaja
There is a big evil and danger in miracle centered gospel.
— Sunday Adelaja
Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning
— Isaac Asimov, Foundation
Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.
— Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
You know those guys who say 'danger is my middle name'? I bet if you looked on their driver's licence it would probably say 'Melvin' or something.
— Lee Entrekin
You’re not touching us,’” Eve said, and raised her voice. “Shane! Shane, get your ass up here now!’”There was a touch of panic in her voice, although she was putting on a good front. Her hands were shaking where they gripped the hockey stick.The man glided around the end of the bed, prowling like a cat. Six feet tall, at least, and as broad as two of Eve, maybe bigger. His bare arms were ripped with muscle. His blue eyes looked shallow and hungry.Claire heard the thump of footsteps outside, and then a bang as Shane fetched up against the locked door. He rattled the knob and pounded hard. “Eve! Eve, open up!’”“She’s busy!’” the biker yelled, and laughed. “Oh yeah, gonna be real busy.’”“No!’” Shane screamed it, and the door shook with the strength of the blows he put into it. “Stay away from them!
— Rachel Caine, The Dead Girls' Dance
Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.
— Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
Should we keep on the lookout for tigers?” Kenda asked his guide.“Yes,” Shahin said, his voice lowering again. “They like to pounce from behind. I've been watching our backs ever since we lost the thugs. I meant to tell you once you calmed down. Now that you know, you can help me.”“Then we are being followed?” He hoped his voice did not squeak.“Yes,” Shahin repeated gravely. “By whom or what, I do not know.”“This just gets better and better,” he groaned.
— Jennifer McKeithen, Atlantis On the Tides of Destiny
Folks in Irihs might not be as welcoming as they were here. Resentment lingers.''So we're going to be in danger.''No more than any other day of your life.
— Ashley Capes, The Lost Mask
Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous.
— Clifford Cohen
How does that put me in danger?” Nick asks. It’s the first question he’s asked the entire time. Devyn, however, has been Mr. Nonstop Wondering Question Guy.“Because . . .” I don’t know how to say it, struggle for the words. “Because you and I are a thing and you’re a threat.”“You better believe I’m a threat,” Nick growls. The entire car seems to shake with his energy. Little hairs on my arm lift and vibrate.“He’s going macho again,” Dev says, totally nonchalantly, while he unlocks the door.“He’s always going macho,” Is adds. “It must be the wolf thing.”“I am not going macho. I am always macho,” Nick says, and for a moment the tension ratchets down, but then his face muscles become rigid again.
— Carrie Jones, Captivate
Just as well then that kings did not grow old.
— Edoardo Albert, Edwin: High King of Britain
You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out die.""I almost did. If it weren't for Gary Frankel, I probably wouldn't have made it. . . .""Gary Frankel?" The nicest, geekiest guy in school? For the first time I scan Alex's face and see a faint, new scar above his eye and nasty ones by his ear and neck. "Oh, God! W-what did they d-do to you?"He takes my hand and places it on his chest. His eyes are intense and dark, like they were the first time I noticed him in the parking lot that first day of school senior year. "It took me a long time to realize I needed to fix everything The choices I made. The gang. Bein' beaten to within an inch of my life and branded like cattle was nothin' compared to losin' you. If I could take back every word I said in the hospital, I would. I thought if I pushed you away, I'd be protectin' you from what happened to Paco and my dad." He looks up and his eyes pierce mine. "I'll never push you away again, Brittany. Ever. I swear."Beaten? Branded? I'm feeling sick to my stomach and tears sting my eyes."Shh." He puts his arms around me, rubbing his hands across my back. "It's all right. I'm okay," he chants over and over again, his voice catching.
— Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
Questions can be more dangerous than swords.
— Evangeline Walton, Prince of Annwn
It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft.
— Andy Weir, The Martian
Run towards the roar,’ the old people used to tell the young ones. When faced with great danger and when people panic and seek a false sense of safety, run towards the roaring and go where you fear to go. For only in facing your fears can you find some safety and a way through. When the world rattles and the end seems near, go towards the roar.
— Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
She knew it wasn't real. She knew the holograph wouldn't hurt. But she also knew that fire was dangerous, and illusions were dangerous, and being tricked into believing things that weren't real was often the most dangerous thing of all.
— Marissa Meyer, Fairest
Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
One of the most remarkable of man's characteristics is his capacity for becoming used to conditions of almost any kind, whether good or bad, both in the self and in the environment, and once he has become used to such conditions they seem to him both right and natural. This capacity is a boon when it enables him to adapt himself to conditions which are desirable, but it may prove a great danger when the conditions are undesirable. When his sensory appreciation is untrustworthy, it is possible for him to become so familiar with seriously harmful conditions of misuse of himself that these malconditions will feel right and comfortable.
— F. Matthias Alexander, The Use of the Self
I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me. There were millions of ways that the world could kill me--starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia--that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists. Terrorists kill a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions. Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
— Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
Maybe with a little more danger ― but there's more to life than just trying to exist.
— Andrew Garve, The Late Bill Smith
If they endangered us, they also saved us from danger. If they harmed us, we have harmed them.
— Nick O'Donohoe
If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There are few things more dangerous than a zealot with discipline
— Craig Schaefer, The Long Way Down
That's the thing about sleepwalking . You can walk, eat, have conversations and even drive cars in perfect safety. The danger comes from waking up too quickly.
— Erin Kelly, The Poison Tree
We marched. Gates opened and closed. We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was NOT in danger of death?
— Elie Wiesel
The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.
— Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin
Not all weapons are guns or blades; the most dangerous are subtle, hidden.
— Andrea Cremer, The Inventor's Secret
There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one of that kind. She's totally uninterested in herself. And yet she's got a strong character--there must be something. I thought at first it was her art--but it isn't. I've never met anyone so detached from life. That's dangerous.''Dangerous? What do you mean?''Well, you see--it must mean an obsession of some kind, and obsessions are always dangerous.
— Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
You had better not open that door.
— George MacDonald, Phantastes
...do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are]... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all.
— George Washington
All of the authoritative books on bears seem to agree on one thing: if you're close enough to a bear to cause it to change its activity pattern, you're too close, and in possible danger.
— Dennis R. Blanchard, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail
My Lasher is powerful beyond yourdreams of a daimon, and he has learnt much.’‘Learned,’ I repeated in amazement. ‘How learned, Deborah, for he is merely a spirit, and they areforever foolish and therein lies the danger, that in granting our wishes they do not understand thecomplexity of them, and thereby prove our undoing. There are a thousand tales that prove it. Has this nothappened? How so do you say learned?
— Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
A divine power delivers us from every danger.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It wasn't an accident.
— Jo Ann Yhard, The Fossil Hunter of Sydney Mines
The star we're looking for isn't so very friendly," said Moomintroll. "Quite the contrary, in fact.""What did you say?" said Sniff.Moomintroll went a bit red. "I mean -- stars in general," he said, "big and small, friendly and unfriendly, and so on.""Can they be unfriendly?" asked Snufkin."Yes -- ones with tails," answered Moomintroll. "Comets."At last it dawned on Sniff. "You're hiding something from me!" he said accusingly. "That pattern we saw everywhere, and you said it didn't mean anything!""You're too small to be told everything," answered Moomintroll."Too small!" screamed Sniff. "I must say it's a fine thing to take me on an expedition of discovery and not tell me what I'm supposed to be discovering!
— Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland
I don't know what you're getting yourself into," said Majid, "but I know I don't like it. Some things in Venice are pure poison." Majid's eyes looked like they could bore through a stone wall. "If someone has put you on a demon's tracks, you'd better make sure the demon doesn't find you first.""What's that supposed to mean," asked Mathias."It means behind every hand stained with blood there's another, and that one stays clean." Majid leaned in close, lowering his voice to a whisper. "What I'm saying is that behind a demon, there's always someone holding the creature on a leash.
— Riccardo Bruni, The Lion and the Rose
So I take a deep breath.Step forward.Let go.10 seconds and I'm trying to breathe9And I'm trying to be brave8But the truth is I'm scared out of my mind7And I have no idea what's waiting for me behind that door6And I'm pretty sure I'm going to have a heart attack5But I can't turn back now4Because there it is3The door is right in front of me2All I have to do is knock1Butthe door flies open first.
— Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
Want to go to West Virginia and risk life and limb with me?"Zane smirked and gave a single nod. "Sounds like fun.
— Abigail Roux, Stars & Stripes
sometimes falling raincarries memories of betrayalthere in the woodswhere she was not meant to betoo young she believesin her right to be freein her bodyfree from harmbelieving naturea wilderness she can enterbe solacedbelieving the powerthat there be sacred placethat there can be atonement nowshe returns with no fearfacing the pastready to riskknowing these woods nowhold beauty and danger
— bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
If you do not know you are in danger, you are that danger. You do not know me, but I come in peace; if you think that is strange, then you are the stranger.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I turned into Little Red Riding Hood. I made a cake, packed it up and went through the forest until I met the wolves. That's something the story got wrong, wolves don't travel solo, they hunt in packs.
— Louise Welsh, Naming the Bones
The more success a person has in life, the greater the danger of fornication can become.
— Sunday Adelaja
Seek a secret, court danger.Bury a secret, avoid anger." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication.
— Sunday Adelaja
Even Damocles developed a routine.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.
— Auliq Ice
There was a sound of steel meeting steel. Devin flung a desperate look over his shoulder, saw Hewet fending off two men behind him, and looked ahead in time to see ten men in light armor ride out of the trees up ahead and drive straight for him. He almost swallowed the flute. He threw an arm over his face, too shocked to be terrified, and waited to die.
— Amy Bai, Sword
His eyes lingered on me, and I wondered if that was a message. Was he danger? Was I supposed to run? I wasn’t afraid.
— Abigail Haas, Dangerous Boys
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
— George Chapman
Mackenzie flinched. Struggling to breathe, she stood up and walked over to the table.
— Yawatta Hosby, Plenty of Fish
What did he want? What did he mean he was in the right place?
— Yawatta Hosby, Plenty of Fish
Mackenzie glanced through the glass doors. It was dark outside, except for the dim light from the front entrance. A night breeze swooshed leaves throughout the parking lot.
— Yawatta Hosby, Plenty of Fish
But sometimes they all craved a little bit of danger, of excitement, of meaning, even if only to reinforce how very comfortable and secure their lives really were.
— Gemma Malley, The Declaration
I won’t do anything Sara; this is not me trying to get into your pants, or to rekindle what we had. This is just me concerned over a friend I know for a long time and don’t want to lose to a crazed lunatic.
— Nicole Kiefer, Waiting in the Wings
It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.
— Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
Love is very real and it's dangerous. People do crazy things in the name of love. Bad things. Love is powerful and shouldn't be played with.
— Susan Mallery, Summer Nights
Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The rabbit hole has collapsed, and my key is melded to a nugget of worthless metal.
— A.G. Howard
That's different," Levi smiled at her warmly. "Ypu don't rock that Little Red Riding Hood vibe. You're scary." Reagan grinned like the Big Bad Wolf.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
People should be more careful about what they read to their kids,” Park said. “Some of this stuff sounds dangerous.
— Jennifer Crusie, Strange Bedpersons
He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved.
— Arthur C. Clarke, A Fall of Moondust
If it’s danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer in spite of it.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
She wants another spin on the wheel of fortune? This was always my problem with her: I could never tell the difference between the feeling of love and the feeling of danger.
— Scott Hutchins, A Working Theory of Love
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the whole machine just quits like a loud load of wash on imbalance--the buzzer singing to high heave, the danger light flashing.
— Sandra Cisneros
Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.
— Marty Rubin
Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Conch Bearer
I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.
— Shannon Hale
Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you.
— Dan Wells, Fragments
The idea for the Guild first came up at a party. Your father and I met there and, well, I suppose that's a story all its own. But we were both frustrated by the media at the time. We set out to tell the truth when everyone else seemed set on choosing sides. We had grand ideas about how far we could reach. … Back then, we knew we should be careful, but we had no idea how dangerous it would turn out to be.
— Sonny and Ais
Everyone has known this condition of mind, though perhaps not all in the same degree; everyone will recognise it as the condition in which he has done brave things with apparent serenity; and everyone reading will say, Fortunate for Ben Hur if the folly which now catches him is but a friendly harlequin with whistle and pointed cap, and not some Violence with a pointed sword pitiless.
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
I didn't ask to be born!""No, but I asked." He was breathing hard. His eyes hard and glinting with a fire that burned straight through me. "I asked for you every day of my life!
— Airicka Phoenix, Touching Fire
At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.
— L.A. Serröt, Gris
TMT, too much testosterone. Way more dangerous than TNT.
— Robert L. Slater
Have you ever read Hans Christian Andersen’s story of The Little Mermaid, Miranda? Have you ever wanted something so badly that you were willing to suffer the sensation of a thousand blades cutting into your feet?
— Vanessa Garden, Captivate
It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go down; it is personal rights. It is not the Eucharist that may pass away; it is freedom of conscience. It is not divine justice that may evaporate; it is the courts of human justice. It is not that God may be driven from His throne; it is that men may lose the meaning of home; For peace on earth will come only to those who give glory to God! It is not the Church that is in danger, it is the world!
— Fulton J. Sheen
Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.
— Robin Maxwell, O, Juliet
Maybe he had become addicted after all—addicted to being the pivot point, to being as central as that crucial joint between copulating man and woman, but with a danger that did not know the bounds of orgasm.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
And the drops of rain. They are delicate, at first, their splashes graceful against pavement. Soon, though, the soft patter grows into a furious storm.
— Ky Grabowski, 2013: A Stellar Collection
I imagine God creating humans was much like cavemen creating fire… First it sparkles brightly, full of life and beauty. But then it grows, stronger and fiercer until it becomes dangerous and uncontrollable… Then its creator can only stand on the hill and wait for his creation to die.
— Ben Mitchell
Taylor,” Nathan said, “Why didn’t you take the rest of us?”	“I didn’t want to put you in danger,” she said.	“Gee, thanks,” I said.	“Hey, I brought Jayden, remember? He insisted on bringing you.”	“Gee, thanks,” Jayden crossed his arms and frowned.
— Embee, Tess Embers
Most of us would simply prefer things to remain the same-- the "Status que" looks more appealing, especially when we think that somehow we are benefiting. accordingly, incumbency with all its faults is generally more assuring than a future that risks being in doubt, risks placing us in some positions we are unsure of. (p. xii, emphasis in general.
— Hamidreza Bagheri
To isolate life from danger is a mission impossible! To take precautions against the dangers, that is the necessary and plausible mission!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.
— Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!
— Alexander the Great
beauty such as theirs was something with which one lived joyously — racing with the wind, with storm and snow, dancing in the frost or among the golden wattles, galloping, galloping in the spring sun. Life might be dangerous, with beauty that was so difficult to hide, but life was always and ever had been very, very good
— Elyne Mitchell, Silver Brumby's Daughter
Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?
— Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
Tradition was safety
—  change was danger.
It is a dangerous position to be in when you can't see, can't hear and won't listen...
— Stella Payton
Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.
— Rachel Caine, Fall of Night
Only an idiot would trust a Kelpie this close to the water. Getting on its back with the scent of the sea in the air would be a fast, painful means of suicide, and I'm not a fan of pain.
— Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers...strangers are always at risk.
— Rachel Caine, Fall of Night
True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.
— L. Frank Baum
If you see a big danger ahead, don’t start running immediately; because it may be the challenge that at the end you shall become stronger than ever before! Do not avoid every danger!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Danger is hidden everywhere! You can’t always be physically ready for it, but you can always be ready mentally!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff that will be its demise.
— Alessandra Torre
He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked the latter, like leaves covering a snare. You didn't notice the steel jaws until they were impaled in your flesh, and by then it was already far too late to run.
— Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape
Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room.
— Ian Fleming, From Russia With Love
The pillow whistled across the room and smacked him in the face. Nicolas smiled, satisfied. If he was going to die, this was the man he wanted to die beside.
— Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness
The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we could understand a group unique to the first century. Pharisaism is a poisonous weed that grows in every garden of orthodox religion. Pharisaism is every bit the threat to the orthodox today that it was then.
— J.D. Greear, Humble Orthodoxy: Holding the truth high without putting people down
Courage is the antidote to danger.
— Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...
— Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother
I mean it. Aside from the old coastal cities, which in Australia are still very young themselves, what you have is a vast stretch of wilderness, wholly natural, with all the horror that nature brings to the table when she dines.""You make it sound like we'll barely survive," Clare said."Oh, I'm sure we will, at least the journey to Port Darwin. From there we won't have to struggle with anything more lethal than a train carriage, I hope. My point is that this is a young country in an old land. And those who don't walk with respect in the wilderness do have a tendency to get eaten.
— Sam Starbuck, The Dead Isle
You've never been the safe, nice girl next door, despite everything you do to be that person. That's why you joined the I.S., and even there you didn't fit in, because, knowing it or not, you were a possible threat to everyone around you. People sense it on some level. I see it all the time. The dangerous are attracted by the lure of an equal, and the weak are afraid. Then they avoid you, or go out of their way to make your life miserable so you'll leave and they can continue deluding themselves that they're safe. (...) You got off on the risk.
— Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms
It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
In life, nobody gets out alive.
— William Blystone
I’ve seen you in action, BB. You get turned on by danger. You are seeking danger. The only reason you’re with me is the risk of getting caught by your wife.”Ingrid aka ‘Alis K’The Informer by Steen Langstrup
— Steen Langstrup, The Informer
They said it was only a ground shark
—  but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.
Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet
—  they were that much more dangerous because of it.
Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.
— Jocelyn  Murray, The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising
Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
— Zhou Weihui, Shanghai Baby
You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.
— D.D. Barant, Dying Bites
I don't know whether to be proud or appalled that danger, blood and death inspire you so.
— Samantha Young, Shades of Blood
You’re not leaving. I told you that.” She worked to keep the calm in her tone to counter his fury. “I’m going to shoot.” “It’s time to put your gun down, Noah.” “His blood will be on you.” Rook made eye contact with her and mouthed, Shoot. Him. She had no shot and said so with the smallest head shake.
— Richard Castle, Heat Wave
He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man."Lambert laughed in the act of lifting some macaroni to his mouth."Dangerous!" he said. "You don't know little Quin, sir!""Every man is dangerous," said the old man, without moving, "Who cares only for one thing. I was once dangerous myself.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
It's been my experience that those people who seem the most 'normal' are in fact the most dangerous.
— Jacqueline West, The Second Spy
Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.
— Mac Barnett, The Ghostwriter Secret
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
— Marguerite de Valois
To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.
— Ruth Harris
If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.
— Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
I won't leave you. If you're in danger, then I should be with you. I won't let you risk your life alone. We're in this together, remember? That's what you told me when we ran away.
— Kristine Pierce, You'll Be Safe Here
Make sure you do not have friends otherwise you have to keep them at bay.""You was my friend too!"The brow of the young side stood up with surprise and he darkened even more. His eyes stole fire."Now I'm not?""I do not know anymore what you are!" I admitted with pain. Gods and Guardians
— Georgia Kakalopoulou, Θεοί και φύλακες
Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...
— Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
- You gave me a dead frog for my birthday!- To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by maggots so we should enjoy our birthdays while we have them. I found it thoughtful.
— Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil
I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.
— Neil Gaiman, Stardust
A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong
Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
— Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground
I haven't devoured a soul in...What month is this? March?
— Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.
— Emperor Charles V
A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!
— Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr Wrong
Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile."Nevada: "You are not assimilating me!
— Ilona Andrews, Burn for Me
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
— Dennis Miller
Sam was waiting for her,his gaze sweeping over her. "Looks great." "I look like a geek," Lucy said. "I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra.""My dream date.
— Lisa Kleypas, Rainshadow Road
We're all secretly idiots inside.
— -Sadiya
Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight.
— Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
That's all you need? Easy. I love you.Okay? Want it louder?I love you. Spell it out schould I l-o-v-e y-o-u. Want it backwards You love I.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
A “good friend” was well…. Like your teeth.You had a limited number of them to last you an entire lifetime.You could survive without them, but having them made life much more enjoyable.If you didn’t take good care of them, you could lose them forever.
— Rob Wood
Have you ever heard of a condom? Don't Carpathians have condoms? Because I'm thinking that if you're all that worried, a condom might be just the thing." His smile was slow in coming. "I had not thought of that. As a rule Carpathians do not need such things.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Peril
There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
— Dennis Miller
It's all right, darling. I'll finish the financial report on my own. I can think clearly before sex and stay awake afterwards. That's one of the nice things about being a woman.
— Barbara Taylor Bradford, Power of a Woman
Life plots elegantly.
— Alice Randall
Are you aware that Jesus Christ can spell? I get so tired of you spelling every slang and cuss word that crosses your mind, as though you are pulling one over on the Lord.
— Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues
despair all ye mortals,” he said in a voice of doom. “the mama approacheth
— Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie
The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.
— Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
All real estate agents should be put on a decommissioned naval frigate which is then towed out into the deepest part of the Atlantic and sunk. It's rather unfortunate that, in recent years, real estate agents have become comedy betes-noires. Rather like lawyers or used car salesmen. Every time they mention their job they probably get people amusingly making the sign of the cross at them or are subjected to some good-natured, humorous ribbing. This has the effect of distorting what I'm trying to say here, which isn't in the nature of a smiling roll of the eyes and a "Tsk, real estate agents, eh?" but rather "All real estate agents should be put on a decommissioned naval frigate which is then towed out into the deepest part of the Atlantic and sunk.
— Mil Millington, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
F***ing triffids.
— Scott B. Pruden
My embarrassment was complete. If I just had passed out, that would have been bad enough. But to make matters worse, Will had carried me outside, where everyone else was; everyone in my youth group had seen Will carrying me. I felt like melting into the bench on which I sat.
— Annie Riley, The Seer
Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong
Pop music is like an auditory cup of coffee. It has no nutritional value but it gets you going.
— Jim Moorman
Mister if you want more to join,’ She said half-choked ‘you’ll have to put in the coin.
— Angelo Tsanatelis, Legends
Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing -- but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon when she was supposed to be catching up on her work. Lady Margaret was counting on her! But then again, Lady Margaret didn't have big brown eyes and a cheeky grin.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong
Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe,"How do you like Gaboriau?""I like him very much indeed!"Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.
— Julian Street
Christian swiped the keys from my hand. "Maybe the fates want us to take the car home. Why do I have a feeling I'm going to regret this?I smirked. "Is that what Viktor said before he hired you?""That's what your husband is going to say before reciting his vows.""That's what every woman says before they have sex with you."Christian swaggered toward the door, swinging the keys around his finger. "That's what I'm going to say before you serve our dinner tonight.
— Dannika Dark, Deathtrap
Charity turned over and hugged the pillow, a quote from Newton making her smile. Sleeping late was really more scientific than working out. After all, a body at rest tends to remain at rest.
— Carol Storm, Burning Captivity
On those who judge, illusions are entertaining; In honestly, I find error in some of their truth.
— Cathy Stevenson
I am a negative person by nature, and I typically shy away from anything that requires me to be having visible fun.
— Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
From my bedroom window, I hadn’t noticed his earring and the Motörhead tattoo on his forearm. He looked like the kind of guy who, if a bomb went off in his watering can, would raise one eyebrow and say, ‘Well, that was close.
— Angie Langley, Jennifer Brown's Journey
to be in charge. To be the wise owl. The comforter. I felt I’d moved beyond that. Gained my own wisdom. Found comfort in my own company. In just being me. The long healing process was at an end, hastened by these few days of sunshine and blissful solitude.
— Angie Langley, Jennifer Brown's Journey
If being ugly was a crime, they'd be hunting that woman down with helicopters and bloodhounds.
— Judith McNaught, Someone to Watch Over Me
I'm a special kind of crazy, boy it must suck to be you
— Alonzo Sherrell
Having plans sounds like a good idea - until you have to put on clothes and leave your house.
— Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters
Victory! Catherine wanted to pull the front of her top over her head and run around the office making V-signs. Of course she wouldn’t do that
— Michele Gorman, Match Me If You Can
I'm apparently in love with a thirteen-year-old who makes lewd sex jokes in public, shamelessly plays footsy with me under the table the whole time I'm trying to enjoy my shrimp scampi, and is insatiably horny at all hours of the day.
— Daryl Banner, Hard For My Boss
I remember watching him perform these endless, boring violin solos, with his long hair flowing behind him like an Afghan hound in a gale, and thinking, 'what a tosser.
— Chris Difford, Some Fantastic Place
I gave up drinking coffee for you. I swapped pizza for produce, and this is what I get in return?
— Barbara Valentin, False Start
On the toilet no one is a star. Remember that and you will go far in life.
— Ruby Wax, Sane New World: Taming The Mind
...Falon sucked hard on her straw and swallowed. “You haven’t mentioned a girlfriend or a wife.” “That’s because I don’t have one.” Haley touched the tip of her nose with her finger. “Whew, I’m feeling good. I should drink more often. My ex left me a year ago for someone else,” she admitted and giggled. “I’ve been surviving on a steady diet of hate and loathing.” Falon raised her cup. “Whatever works, right?” “Yeah, I guess,” Haley agreed with a shrug and a grin. “She always complained that I wouldn’t allow myself to be exciting. Look at me now, though, I’m stranded in another country with no money or passport, wearing shorts with sea turtles on them with no underwear. I’m drunk with someone I don’t know who could very well kill me in my sleep.” The empty cup dropped from her hand onto the floor as her head lolled back against the chair. “I’m fucking exciting now.
— Robin Alexander, Fearless
Mother-in-laws are necessary, as are mosquitoes, athlete's foot, and beets.
— Ed Williams, Sex, Dead Dogs, And Me: The Juliette Journals
If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad.
— Oxford University Press
A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.
— Kevin Focke
Me and Jason against you and Stacy.” Alana handed Alexis a badminton racket and grinned. “Yay,” Alexis said without even a smidgeon of enthusiasm. “Do you want to serve?” Stacy asked Alexis when Jason and Alana moved to the other side of the net. “Serve you what? There’s no staff here to take care of your every whim, princess,” Alexis said lowly so the others wouldn’t hear. Stacy recoiled at the remark, then her temper flared. “You know what I was asking,” she replied coolly. “You can serve. Here’s the birdie,” Alexis replied and handed it to her on her middle finger. “Shuttlecock,” Stacy corrected. “Butthole…cock.” Alexis shrugged when Stacy glared at her. “That’s what we used to call them.” “Uh-huh,” Stacy said as she prepared to serve. The birdie sailed over the net,and volley began. This went on for a few minutes, then Alexis heard a hard thwack behind her, and the birdie stung her on the back of the thigh. She turned and looked at Stacy with fire in her eyes. “My bad,” Stacy said nonchalantly.Alexis picked up the birdie and hit it toward Jason. He served again. Stacy returned and nailed Alexis in the back of the head. “I’m so sorry,” Stacy said with an acerbic smile. “I’m having a hard time getting my shuttlecock up for you.” ...An intense volley began, and Alana said, “Uh, hey, y’all are supposed to be hitting it to us.” Jason watched in fascination. “I think they’re trying to kill the birdie.” Alexis finally missed and snatched it off the ground. “We were just warming up.” “Yeah, I’m good and hot now,” Stacy added between clenched teeth...“My serve,” Alexis said as she whirled around, then lowered her voice as she passed Stacy. “You’re about to find out whywe call them butthole cocks.” Stacy held her racket out like a sword. “How about I just waffle your ass now?” Alexis struck a fencing pose, or at least she thought she did. “On guard, biatch.”...Alana rushed under the net and stepped between the two staring daggers at each other. “Hey, we want to be able to use these rackets again. Maybe we should take a break since y’all kind of murdered the birdie.” Alana laughed. “It’s missing two plastic feathers...
— Robin Alexander, Dear Me
Dear Me, I made a jackass out of myself tonight. I couldn’t stop it. The second I saw Stacy, I sprouted big donkey ears and a tail. I don’t know why she gets under my skin. Why should I care what she thinks of me? She’ll be gone right along with Jason when Alana gets bored. Alana’s lasagna was terrible. No one noticed that I was slipping the harder pieces of it into my salad bowl and hiding them under the lettuce. It’s a good thing they don’t have a dog because if it was to eat the scraps, it would surely die. Jason and Stacy are gonna be shitting pasta shards. I feel sorry for Jason, not so much for Stacy. I’ll have to patch things up with Alana, so this may not be the right time to tell her that her cooking is lethal. She was pissed when I left her house. I’m sure she’ll tell Mom and Grammy I was a jerk. Jason was probably mad at me too. I feel a little bad about that. Me
— Robin Alexander, Dear Me