Shelley Connor

“When we live in fear, it controls us. Every decision we make is smothered by it.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“I am not afraid. The Devil has been hanging around us for weeks. I am no more afraid of him in a cunning woman's cell than I would be in my own chamber. It is the men who rule us that I am afraid of.”
― Kate Foster, The King's Witches

“I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes," said Elinor, "in a total misapprehension of character in some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.”
― Jane Austen

“What was his interest? Maybe it was the dreariness of the day, or the atmosphere in this house, or the positioning of the body. All he knew was that he felt something. And if it turned out to be just a damp ache in his bones, well fair enough.”
― Ian Rankin, Hide and Seek