Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

People want security in this insecure world.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

There can be no security where there is fear.

They can't hurt you now.

If people don't feel safe, they're not going to have hope.

You would not get out of bed in the morning if you were constantly worrying about the possibility of something happening to you on your way to work. But it is still something to pay attention to, I think.

I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.

Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.

We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.