"Could he hear my heart pounding?"

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"Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her trachea."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does."

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"It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable."

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"Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep."

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"If you feel suddenly so anxious for laugh, then it's too late to find ha-ha in dictionary."

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"I think writers are very anxious."

Helen Garner, Australian Novelist

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"Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'.It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"When your inner critic undermines your confidence, inner conflict, anxiety, and agitation take over. It tells you that you are not good enough, smart enough, handsome enough, worthy enough, or basically just plain NOT enough. It takes a toll on your self-confidence, doesn't it?"

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"I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness."

Tom Cochrane, Canadian Musician

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"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"Why are you being so mean?''Friends tell friends the truth.''yeah, but not to hurt, to help."

Integrity

"I'd given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I'd painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation."

Nostalgia

"If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem."

Rebellion

"This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values...."

Absurdity

"I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything."

Insight

"Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister?Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass."

Authority

"The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. That's when they can hear us true."

Supernatural

"In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops " I mean Pride of the Blue Devils.In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in CancAon during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom."

Privilege

"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."

Self-Expression

"Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul."

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