Alexandra Bracken Quotes

Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

Bullies are just frightened people.

When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

My own death threats have declined considerably.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

He intimidated me. When Lyndon Johnson would call on the phone, I would perspire. He knew how to intimidate you and liked it.

We shouldn’t use fear for political purposes—scaring people to death so that they will vote for you or scaring people to date so that we can create a terror-industrial complex.

Not everyone is comfortable with being pushed.

Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie - it's to make people fear the liar.

Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.