Chelsea Cain Quotes

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

I don't fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, 'Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.'

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.

You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m just waiting. Things happen to me. They do. They have to go ahead and happen. You watch – you wait… Things still happen here and something is waiting to happen to me. I can tell. Recently my life feels like a bloodcurdling joke. Recently my life has taken on *form* Something is waiting. I am waiting. Soon, it will stop waiting – any day now. Awful things can happen any time. This is the awful thing.

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

The unknown is always frightening.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fear comes not from God but from the evil one.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.