“Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert." Nick”
“Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.”
“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."[Women Know Everything!]”
“The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken.”
“It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible”
“And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.”