Margaret Stohl Quotes

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

I'm afraid of the dark because I picture things; I see things. I'm a freak. I see, like, little demons coming out of the floor and other little things running around. It's scary.

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.

I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.

I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

I have a friend who calls me the queen of the nightmares because I've always had really bad nightmares. I keep a notebook by the side of my bed, so I'll wake up in the night from a bad dream, and my heart's pounding, and I'm really scared, but I write it down, and sometimes I get ideas for books that way.

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

I have trouble sleeping maybe one night a year. On that special night, I get up and read on the couch until I fall asleep.

Sleepless nights I'm not a big fan of to be honest.

When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.

Growing up, I was afraid of the dark.

I'm frightened of the dark.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.