Sylvia Day Quotes

Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

There is no sure solution to some dangers.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

The world is a dangerous place to live

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

I feel that the world is in a really dangerous place and it scares me.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are you sure it's a he?" "I don't want to know.

You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

I once stopped to pick up a girl, and then there was this creepy-looking guy standing behind the bushes waiting to jump out and get in, too. So I just quickly drove away.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.