““Were you really not frightened?" "Sometimes I was terrified, but that was the whole point." "You wanted to be afraid?" She couldn't imagine deliberately putting herself in a position of fear. “I wanted to test my courage, my determination. It was a journey of discovery, but it was more about what I discovered within myself. What I discovered about the world was simply a bonus.” “And what did you discover—about yourself, I mean?” “That I’m not nearly as weak as I thought, nor nearly as strong as I’d hoped.””
