Fear Me Not Quotes

“They judge with their eyes alone. There is nothing wrong with you. There is something very wrong with them.”
― Sara Wolf, Fear Me Not

“Snow White! I remember her story. She was the one with the seven stunted humans looking after her. She cooked and cleaned and one day ate a radioactive fruit of some sort, and the creatures put her in a glass preservation tube and cried.” I blink. “That sounds a little different than the one I remember.”
― Sara Wolf, Fear Me Not

“We fish around blindly in a pool of seven billion people, hoping one of them isn’t too crazy or too incompatible with us, and we get so desperate that when we find someone we can stand for two minutes we decide to marry them for life, when in reality they’re all wrong for us. But we keep pretending they’re right, until we can’t anymore, and then we divorce them or break up and we get up and try again, and again, and it chips away at our tiny human hearts.”
― Sara Wolf, Fear Me Not

“If all I need to do is smile, your culture is highly dependent on the shallowness of outer appearances.” “Yeah,” I laugh.  “We know. A million dead philosophers have told us before.”
― Sara Wolf, Fear Me Not

“Something’s wrong with me. I don’t know how to react like a normal person. Jeers, whispers, sneers, those are fine. I ignore them, punch something to make them hurt less. Compliments? I don’t know what to do with those.”
― Sara Wolf, Fear Me Not

“Greedy to make things better for those you love. That isn’t greed at all. That is…well…love. And love is always noble.”
― Sara Wolf, Fear Me Not