It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~Nelson DeMille

When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

"Mr. Saunders, I have green fingers. Do you know that? Everything I plant grows-even me!" Saunders rushes to Mrs. Bowen's rose bushes, his hair blanched white from fear and insanity, and says between hysterical fits of laughter, "Do you want to hear something funny? You know, from small acorns mighty oaks grow. That's a fact. But do you know what grows from an old lady's fingers? Hmm? Old Ladies!"

Mrs. Bowen (Elsa Lanchester)

"Night Gallery" "Green Fingers"