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“It's because you're scared that there's danger. But could she manage not to be scared anymore?”

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“These were emotions she didn't know how to carry. There was the insult of having her death celebrated when she wasn't even dead. When she was, in fact, amidst them all right now, and only out here because they'd sent killers to fail in her home. But this? To be dying from the poison of those assassins, and while looking for emergency food to survive the injury, to be told by a drunk rich boy with inconvenient hair that she had never really existed? Now their songs made unkind sense to her. This revelry was a kind of fear, for hatred was the fear people let themselves enjoy. Never had she imagined such a thing. Humans were so creative in their disappointments.”

Humans Humanity Fear Hatred Monsters Commentary

Book:Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Source: Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“إن بيننا وبين الله رابطة لا تنفصم، فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه - سبحانه وتعالى - تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها.”

God Spiritual Self Awareness Wishes Allah Hopes

Author:William James

“Fear is a cold bastard. The only way to overcome it is to act—to take the first step and just move forward.”

Fear Cowardice Paralysis Immobilization

Book:Cobweb Bride

Source: Cobweb Bride

“I'm afraid of old people. They are what I will one day be.”

Fear Aging Retirement Old People Translation Andrea Rosenberg Gerascophobia

Book:Ordesa

Source: Ordesa

“I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy.' He looks at me. 'Is that right? It would explain much about your kind if it's possible to mistake the two.”

Love Humans Fear Mortals Holly Black The Folk Of The Air Jude Duarte The Wicked King Balekin Balekin Greenbriar

Book:The Wicked King

Source: The Wicked King

“Pour la plupart des hommes, l'amour de la justice n'est que la peur de subir l'injustice. (For most men, the love of justice in only the fear of suffering injustice.)”

Fear Justice

Author:François de La Rochefoucauld

“Once,' she said, 'I used to sleep with a piece of wood by my side so that I could defend myself if I were attacked. That's how afraid I was.' 'Afraid of what?' She shook her head. 'Of nothing, of everything.”

Fear Afraid

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“You can't deny the truth of it: it's scary and it's unknown. That's a fact. But it's also a fact that scary and unknown is how everything has always been.”

Fear Being Scared Scary Things Unknowns

Book:Sky Full of Elephants

Source: Sky Full of Elephants

“However frightening the truth may seem we have to face it, becauase being afraid of it won't make it go away. Being afraid only shrinks our minds and makes people invent myths small enough for them to cope with.”

Fear Rationalization Comfortable Beliefs

Book:Midnight Sun

Source: Midnight Sun

“I knew then, as I know now to this day and will always know: Death is not something to be afraid of.”

Life Inspirational Death Fear Acceptance

Book:My Next Breath

Source: My Next Breath

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