“Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.”
“The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.”
“I opened both eyes. Dread was sitting on my chest as if it were an animal. I mean, dread so real it had physical presence, like a Labrador retriever I could teach tricks to. Here, Dread. Sit, Dread. Roll over, Dread. Play dead, Dread.”
“Once a fate cannot be avoided, however horrible it might be, it loses something of its powers of dread”
“Billy was guided by dread and the lack of dread. Dread told him when to stop. Lack of it told him when to move again.”
“That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today”