“Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.”
John Marsden (1950) author
Source: A Killing Frost
“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
— Katherine Paterson, book Jacob Have I Loved
Source: Jacob Have I Loved
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American children's writer born and mainly raised in China 1932Related quotes
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