Jeff Kinney Quotes

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

I spent much of my life hiding.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers

There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

My day is spent hiding from people.

I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.

I do get in the water, but I was ruined by 'Jaws' 'cause I saw it when I was 13. Before that, I used to get in the water everywhere and never thought twice about it. After watching 'Jaws,' I was scared of the water. I have Steven Spielberg to thank for giving me another phobia.

I have a major phobia of height and water.

When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

I am always running away from something.

Growing up, I was afraid of the dark.

I went to lunch at the Ivy. People started running across the street, and one guy almost got hit by a car. I started to freak out. That put me into hiding for three weeks. I didn't leave the house.

I watched horror films growing up, and I would love watching them with friends. But then, I would spend the next week sleeping in my parents' room because I would be so scared.

I spent a lot of my life afraid as a kid, even throughout high school.

I used to be terrified of a particular film - I can't remember what it was called. It was set in a forest, and there was lots of oil coming from trees. And someone fell, and ever since then... Oh, and I also dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go to the store... I have to hide in the room. You feel like you're in prison.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

You need to face what you're running from

She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)