“I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.”

“It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.”

“but sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation.”

“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”

“I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it.Which should probably frighten me even more.”

“As frightening as we may think her, I believe she finds herself even more so.”