Robin McKinley Quotes

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

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.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

Panic is a horrible thing.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

I get nervous for everything - literally everything.

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

The thought of real-life scares me to death.

I'm such a worrier.

Every single night I'm nervous.

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

Please don't tell me there's no need to worry, it's the only thing I'm any good at.

If it makes you feel any better, you’re not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous, he literally kept looking over his shoulder.” Lee paused thoughtfully. “I think it might have been because Adrian kept laughing like a mad scientist at those old black-and-white movies he was watching.

I have the most nervous stomach in the world.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.