The Taste of Fear Quotes

“Jeremy”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“understanding. As they progressed west across the crater floor, they saw more gazelles and zebras and buffalo than she could count. She glassed the grasslands through the binoculars for a bottleneck of Land Rovers, hoping it would indicate a predator sighting. The strategy paid off. The first gathering led them to a chilled-out leopard lounging in the crotch of an acacia tree, the second to a pack of spotted hyenas making whooping-giggling noises while tearing apart the ribcage of an antelope with their bone-crushing jaws.”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“After landing in Julius Nyerere International Airport, he’d browsed the Internet for all the safari companies in Dar es Salaam that serviced Tanzania’s northern safari circuit. There had been several dozen. The addition of the keyword “luxury” narrowed the search significantly. He wrote down the telephone numbers and addresses of the ten most expensive companies. He didn’t think Salvador Brazza would settle for anything less. It turned out he was right. He hit the money on the third outfit he called. Yes, Salvador Brazza and Scarlett Cox had booked a safari with them, the woman on the phone had said. But no, she could not provide any details. It was prohibited by management.”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“Do you have your goddamn phone or not?” “Do I look like I have my phone, Sal?” She turned in a circle. “Where do you think I keep it? In my bra? My garter belt?”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been my senses would have cool’d To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in’t. I have supp’d full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.   —Will, Macbeth”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“Walk. Or I carry you. Limp.”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“the”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“The assassin flicked the channel.”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“crossed”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“course it does,” Sal snapped. “It’s my life we’re talking about here, you arrogant shit.” The three”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“they trudged on, it became a little cooler. Scarlett was no longer sweating.”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“Get out of my face, you dumb shit.”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“over. You do not know what I am capable of. You do not want to find out.”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“fight or flight hormone”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“the initial relief that came with the knowledge they weren’t going to be summarily executed, Scarlett’s confusion and anger returned”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“Scarlett”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“thicket.”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“he”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“sailing”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“same”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“were”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear

“Akipenda chongo huita kengeza.”
― Jeremy Bates, The Taste of Fear