"Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

There’s some ex-traordinary things in books,” said the mariner.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

Books are cold but safe friends

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.

Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best friend or lying in bed next to your mother reading Roald Dahl, because that way you get to explore dark stuff safely. You get to laugh with it, to step out on the vampire's dance floor and take him for a spin, and then step back into your life. When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

"No one in the house had seen books for generations. We didn't even know what they were. We'd only heard that they were poisonous and that they ruined the mind, and that no one was to have anything to do with them.".