Rick Riordan Quotes

I'm a worry-wart, I'd say.

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

I do worry - a lot.

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

I am definitely a worrier.

I'm a worrier.

I'm always nervous.

It's natural to get nervous about anything you care about.

I've been a worrier for as long as I can remember.

I am a worrier.

I'm such a worrier.

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

I can worry about anything.

Worry is a form of fear.

He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the "extra" buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.

Work is a form of nervousness.

Worry is interest paid before it's due.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!