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“She hadn’t wanted this and yet deep down inside, she knew that she did, and that was what scared her more than anything.”

— Julie Lessman

“How very scared I was of everything, and in the end how very scared I was of her. This woman I knew, and did…

— James Christie

“The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I really do think it all boiled down to fear. She was so worried about what the people around us would think, she forgot…

— Julie Kibler

“Sometimes we think we know what to fear. We never turn our back on it. Then something else we never thought of comes along.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.”

— George RR Martin

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

— Johanna Verweerd

“I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.”

— Amy Tan

“Maybe she feared there were different ways of being trapped than the ones she already knew.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.”

— David Foster Wallace

“When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.”

— John Green

“She thought of all the things she’d forgotten to be scared of.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson