{"quotes":[{"text":"You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.","author":"Tasha Alexander","tags":["experience","horror","numbness","terror","tragedy"],"id":1243,"author_id":"Tasha+Alexander"},{"text":"I saw a bullfrog snap a tiny bird off a reed once, swallowing it just like that, grinding the singing thing to foodstuff in its slimy belly, and the witnessing of that act produced in me an insight: that this moment of terror before resignation was possibly the only ascertainable moment of truth we can ever know in life.","author":"Carl Watson","tags":["life","survival","terror","the-unknown","truth"],"id":1793,"author_id":"Carl+Watson"},{"text":"When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.].","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["imagination","terror"],"id":1871,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himself to remember the details of what he had said and done so that his fears returned, redoubled. His previous life, which had been without fear, he now dismissed as an illusion since he had come to believe that only in fear could the truth be found. When he woke from sleep without anxiety, he asked himself, What is wrong? What is missing? And then his door opened slowly, and a child put its head around and gazed at him: there are wheels, Ned thought, wheels within wheels. The curtains were now always closed, for the sun horrified him: he was reminded of a film he had seen some time before, and how the brightness of the noonday light had struck the water where a man, in danger of drowning, was struggling for his life.","author":"Peter Ackroyd","tags":["anxiety","fear","insanity","madness","terror"],"id":6333,"author_id":"Peter+Ackroyd"},{"text":"I sweat terror, Robyn! I'm scared every single second about every single goddamned thing. I worry obsessively about being buried under an avalanche of fear. Jesus, Robyn, I'm scared like only the truly crazy ca.","author":"Teresa Toten","tags":["courage","fear","strength","terror"],"id":6778,"author_id":"Teresa+Toten"},{"text":"She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him.","author":"Lev Grossman","tags":["alice","beauty","flame","light","love","she","star","terror"],"id":7915,"author_id":"Lev+Grossman"},{"text":"The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military conflicts, it's almost impossible to define victory. You can't document the war's progress on a world map or chart it on a historical timetable in a way that makes any sense. A country used to a feeling of being in command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction, swinging wildly between passive fear and fevered, often thoughtless, activity, at a high cost to its self-confidence.","author":"George Packer","tags":["9-11","9-11-10th-anniversary","american-history","command","control","progress","reaction","self-confidence","surprise","terror","victory","war"],"id":15481,"author_id":"George+Packer"},{"text":"When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["attack","attacks","dark-future","future","future","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","modern-people","modern-values","terror","terrorism","terrorism","terrorism","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","under-attack"],"id":15657,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo).","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["imagination","joesph-conrad","terror"],"id":17736,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn’t moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make sure it was real. The TV fuzzed grey and white and black and I had a lump in my throat that I couldn’t swallow away. “Rory” I whispered. Clawing out gently beneath the duvet cover, reaching for his hand. But I couldn’t find it. And he didn’t answer.","author":"Kate Chisman","tags":["frightened","frightening","ghost","ghosts","girl","haunted","haunted-house","horror","night","nightmare","nightmares","scary","scream","stalker","stalking","terror"],"id":19037,"author_id":"Kate+Chisman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":261,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}