"When you're scared, you stay as you are!"
- Stephen Richards
"She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk"
- Susan Crandall
"After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment."
- Judith Lewis Herman
"He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often."
- Amanda McCabe
"Lad, I think we've got what we need for this page. Why don't you go have a look around? And keep out of trouble, or that Madam Sidler will scare you silly." Oskar put a hand to the side of his mouth a..."
- Andrew Peterson