Warning Signs Quotes

“We may be fascinated by the temptations of random encounters. Still, randomness can upset us by the pertinacity of our habits, actuating warning signals or panic buttons in our minds and preventing us from opening up to others. If we want to meet others and, even so, better understand how we are wired and what makes us tick, we must cultivate our tastes and tame the flavors of our lifestyle. ("I seek you")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Yet I had not bargained for this, the girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls, her cunt a split fig below the great globes of her buttocks on which the knotted tails of the cat were about to descend, while a man in a black mask fingered with his free hand his prick, that curved upwards like a scimitar he held. The picture had a caption 'Reproof of curiosity.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“You know how your intuition warns you about someone, but you bury it because it shows the darkness underneath which you wish to ignore; the bright and shiny on the outside is so inviting, you don’t want to look anywhere else?”
― Neena H. Brar, Tied to Deceit

“... it's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh.”
― Andrés Neuman

“No, Novikovs time traveler is the tragic dupe who realizes too late her |trip to the past is what sealed the very fate she’d meant to prevent. Maybe you mistook your future voice shouting through the walls for something else: a heartbeat pacing and then rapid with want, a purr.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“If someone in your circle cannot congratulate you on your success, heed the warning and distance yourself from that person because they are not for you.”
― Germany Kent

“A faraway look—I have heard suicidologist Thomas Joiner refer to it as “the thousand-yard stare”—is a warning sign for imminent suicide, and one often missed.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“Warning signs are for the clever people not for the fools because fools live their lives through living the warned things!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We have plenty of warners (though the wind blows away our words), but we could do with more arks.”
― H.M. Forester

“The red flags weren’t hidden; they were the wallpaper.”
― Anita Lewis, The Red Flag Diaries: This is Not a Romance Memoir

“I went full steam ahead, because my threshold for ‘dealbreaker’ is somewhere between ‘serial allegations’ and ‘active crime scene.”
― Anita Lewis, The Red Flag Diaries: This is Not a Romance Memoir

“Vulnerability is the biggest attraction to all predators. But your survival instincts are also at the highest when in danger. Use them, don't let fear shut them down.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“When exploring, read the warning signs: figuratively and literally.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“She had noted, as a small smile graced her, that perhaps Kyun-ho’s life was laced with the same kind of tragedies that adorned her own.
And this is what prompted her to stay, despite all the warnings from the world around her that told her she shouldn’t.”
― Rudith Moore, Children of Dysphoria: Book One Fall of Haven

“If familiar looked like a minefield, I laced up my shoes and called it a hiking trail.”
― Anita Lewis, The Red Flag Diaries: This is Not a Romance Memoir